Neanderthal
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Molly, as promised, here are the Gunther points. Sorry, the picture sucks. I have better images somewhere, but they must be on one of the other external hd's.
Anyways, the majority of artifacts in this frame were actually found by one family (the Kenworthys) in the early 1900's. They came from coastal CA and OR, the mouth of Mad River, Smith River, Pistol bay, etc. I have the records from the family, documenting where each piece was individually found. The green and green / red material you see is Franciscan chert, some of it gem quality. Other included materials are Monterey chert, agates and jaspers. Some of the bottom examples are what's called "Beach points", and they can attain lengths 2 1/2" and longer.
I'm also going to include a crappy pic of some of the Calapooya points. Of notable exception is the "clear" one in the middle right. It's made of glass. Realize, these points are historic and the Native Americans would use whatever materials were available to them at the time. I have seen a few made of glass that they retrieved from telegraph insulators, etc.
I'll post better pics if I can find them..but I'll have to do some searching. All of these are on display over at the museum. If you look closely at the images, you will see some of the better examples of these types that have been found. There are some real killers in there!
Anyways, the majority of artifacts in this frame were actually found by one family (the Kenworthys) in the early 1900's. They came from coastal CA and OR, the mouth of Mad River, Smith River, Pistol bay, etc. I have the records from the family, documenting where each piece was individually found. The green and green / red material you see is Franciscan chert, some of it gem quality. Other included materials are Monterey chert, agates and jaspers. Some of the bottom examples are what's called "Beach points", and they can attain lengths 2 1/2" and longer.
I'm also going to include a crappy pic of some of the Calapooya points. Of notable exception is the "clear" one in the middle right. It's made of glass. Realize, these points are historic and the Native Americans would use whatever materials were available to them at the time. I have seen a few made of glass that they retrieved from telegraph insulators, etc.
I'll post better pics if I can find them..but I'll have to do some searching. All of these are on display over at the museum. If you look closely at the images, you will see some of the better examples of these types that have been found. There are some real killers in there!
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