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).

"Spirits Of The Past", many different Stone Age Artifacts.

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