SPIRITS FROM THE PAST 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). |