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Offline Bud B.

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For the Knappers
« on: July 27, 2012, 02:00:00 PM »
There's a local cafe situated in a Harley Davidson Museum in my town. They serve a good southern breakfast. I just happened to have my camera nearby this morning and snapped a few shots of the wall decoration placed by the owner. It's his personal finds, from what I'm told. Randolph County NC and nearby counties are rich in Native American history. I have found several heads in the woods myself.

If these heads could talk....

 

 

 

 
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Re: For the Knappers
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2012, 02:36:00 PM »
That's pretty cool Bud. Thanks for sharing them.
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Re: For the Knappers
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2012, 02:42:00 PM »
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Re: For the Knappers
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2012, 05:11:00 PM »
That's a beautiful display piece!

We have a county museum here where I live in OK that has a 3 or 4 cases about 10ft long apiece with nothing but knapped arrow heads, tomahawk heads and spear points. Some of the obsidean spear points are just shy of 18" long while some of the tiny bird points are barely 1/2".
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Re: For the Knappers
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2012, 05:41:00 PM »
I should get around to taking some photos of my heads here.  Most aren't in frames yet
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Re: For the Knappers
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2012, 06:01:00 PM »
I found it interesting to see all of the sizes and shapes. Makes me wonder what heads were for what game, or fish.
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Offline benny

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Re: For the Knappers
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2012, 06:43:00 PM »
Nice find Bud. I will have to stop by there and check out those heads and breakfast.
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Re: For the Knappers
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2012, 07:17:00 PM »
Some of them are small game points(bird points) , some are large game arrowheads, some are lance heads for war, some are drill bits. They made lots of tools for specific purposes.  Those long skinny ones that look like a saw tooth shark bill are little drills for wood, bone , and shell work.
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Offline Roadkill

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Re: For the Knappers
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2012, 12:31:00 AM »
Guys doing those today are making some cleaner points, but considering what our ancestors had, those are pretty neat.  I worked for an archeologist from UT in the 60's and varieties are tools until themselevs as Bishop says
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Re: For the Knappers
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2012, 07:00:00 AM »
Pretty cool find Bud.  Thanks for sharing it with us, and here I thought you had put your skills to work knapping out some fine heads for this season.
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Offline Jon Stewart

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Re: For the Knappers
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2012, 08:07:00 AM »
Wife and I have found several of the stone beads like the one shown in the picture. Everytime we find an artifact I wonder about its use and how it was made.

Great photo with some great points.
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Re: For the Knappers
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2012, 10:15:00 AM »
Thanks for showing the pictures.
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