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SPIRITS
FROM THE PAST
PRESENT
DAY TO 12,000 YEARS AGO
NORTH AMERICA
PRIVATE
COLLECTION
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SPIRITS FROM THE PAST
PRESENT
DAY TO 12,000 YEARS AGO
NORTH
AMERICA
PRIVATE
COLLECTION
If you enlarge this picture you will be able to view, close-up,
a wide variety of Stone Age artifacts. The Northwest Coast cedar
mask is a recently carved copy of an old mask. In this picture
you will find examples of jewelry
in the form of shell & pearl beads, 2 gorgets 1 Eskimo
pendent and 2 ear pins, fishing
& maritime hunting equipment in the form
of bone fishhooks and a whale harpoon,
tobacco
smoking in the form of
three different styles of pipes, two of which are made of
catlinite and one tub pipe made of hard stone. There are
examples of wood
working tools in the
form of a 3/4 grooved axe and a hafted ungrooved axe,
agricultural
implement in the form
of a side-notched hoe, several
knives
in the form of one Eskimo hafted slate knife and several
different types of flaked stone points that were at one time
hafted onto short handles (Snyders, Graham Cave, St. Charles,
etc.) and a dagger
in the form of a large Mandan culture bone dagger from South
Dakota. There are also examples of
gaming
pieces in the form of
3 discoidals, projectile
points in the form of
small arrow points (44 stone and 1 bone point) and larger spear
points (Table Rock, Clovis and Daltons),
hole
making tools in the
form of a bone awl (just at right of mask) and a stone
perforator (top left corner). There are also
vessels
in the form of 2 fired clay ceramic pots and one bowl with a
"corn god-maze effigy head",
ritual
or ceremonial object
in the form of a polished lizard effigy and there is also a
flint
knapping tool called a
billet in this picture (second bone artifact to the right of the
mask). |
