Description:

North America, modern-day southeastern/midwestern United States, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. This is a fascinating collection of six bone tools from the Mississipian culture, made from the bones of a variety of animals (bird and mammal), representing a wide range of uses. The finest is a pointed awl with excellent patina and two holes drilled in it, possibly for attaching to a fishing spear, similar to those excavated from the Zebree Site in northeast Arkansas. Other items include what may be a small flesher, small awls, and what may be a "flattener" -- a flat-ended tool used to flatten porcupine quills for use in decoration. Individual bone tools likely had a wide range of uses, so things like the "flattener" may also have been used for smoothing in pottery making. Size of largest: 10" L (25.4 cm)

Provenance: Ex- Historia Antiques, Santa Monica, CA, Ex James Caswell

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  • Condition: All exhibit varying degrees of expected wear; one (an awl) has had modern twine strung through it to demonstrate its use.

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