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From Oregon. Is it a......

 

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Mortifier cain: I understand that agate, flint and chert and probably others can sometimes have the "chipability" improved by heating it in a fire, and a bigger chunk can have water dripped on it and break into very workable pieces. I suppose that would be a good thing, but I don't know that the ancients were too color conscious. There is a guy in Ohio, I think, that has claimed a agate outcropping that the agate, when heated, produces some spectacular reds yellows and blues, and he is a world class rock knocker.

I love mahogany obsidian, and would someday like to personally collect some. I do have a small arrowhead from Calif that is M O, but I think that they valued it highly out there and obsidian just didn't get traded too much to the Colorado ancients. I know there have been some, but there is also a lot of agate around here, and flints in Kansas, and huge amounts of flints in Texas, which the Indians in Colorado migrated close enough down there for the buffalo to have plenty of tool material.

Shoot me your address and I will send ya some spawls.
The Indians here were very conscience of color I beleive,given the way they took advantage of "stripes",and such in certain specimens.I urge anybody with a slight interest in points to visit the Favvell Museum in Oregon.There is no museum in the world comparible.They have a Fire Agate point in a vault there that is priceless.The Davis Creek area of Northern Calif is the Mecca of Obsidian gathering as well.Many different colors that are unique to that area.Glass Mtn. Oregon as well.Gold/Silver sheen,Rainbow,Gray.

 

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Mortifier cain: I understand that agate, flint and chert and probably others can sometimes have the "chipability" improved by heating it in a fire, and a bigger chunk can have water dripped on it and break into very workable pieces. I suppose that would be a good thing, but I don't know that the ancients were too color conscious. There is a guy in Ohio, I think, that has claimed a agate outcropping that the agate, when heated, produces some spectacular reds yellows and blues, and he is a world class rock knocker.

I love mahogany obsidian, and would someday like to personally collect some. I do have a small arrowhead from Calif that is M O, but I think that they valued it highly out there and obsidian just didn't get traded too much to the Colorado ancients. I know there have been some, but there is also a lot of agate around here, and flints in Kansas, and huge amounts of flints in Texas, which the Indians in Colorado migrated close enough down there for the buffalo to have plenty of tool material.

Shoot me your address and I will send ya some spawls.
The Indians here were very conscience of color I beleive,given the way they took advantage of "stripes",and such in certain specimens.I urge anybody with a slight interest in points to visit the Favvell Museum in Oregon.There is no museum in the world comparible.They have a Fire Agate point in a vault there that is priceless.The Davis Creek area of Northern Calif is the Mecca of Obsidian gathering as well.Many different colors that are unique to that area.Glass Mtn. Oregon as well.Gold/Silver sheen,Rainbow,Gray.

good info.