Arrowheads

[Buck Buster]

Getting away from the primitive firearm topics by asking this. Do any of ya'll hunt and collect Indian artifacts such as arrowheads, spearpoints, scrapers, etc.? I look for them all the time in clearcuts, streams, riverbanks, gulleys, and dirt roads. I've been pickin them up for over 35 years and have a nice little collection. I'm always amazed at the craftsmanship that the primitive man could do with a piece of rock.

 

[musketman]

There are still a few of us that keep the old ways alive...

Remember that all of the Native American's knapping skills were handed down throughout time by example, there was no true written text outside of Cherokee alphabet, composed by Sequoyah in 1821.
http://www.atypical.net/CherTabl.html

The Native Americans were true masters of their art, Chert, Agate and Obsidian (Volcanic Silica Glass) was also used and is still used today by doctors...

A single flake of Obsidian is 500 times sharper that surgical steel, making it ideal for eye Suregy...

When I bow hunt, I use cedar shaft arrows with flint points on them, Ohio laws state that the arrown must be equipted with at least two, non-moving edges with a width of 5/8" or greater...

No where does it state that it has to be made of steel, look at history, more game (and people too) have been killed with stone points than metal.

 

[TwoShadows]

I have an arrowhead knapped from the glass of a television picture tube. Can you imagine explaining that to some Native American a couple hundred years ago?

 

[Haggis]

I used to make them out of bottoms Ale8-1 pop bottles. Twoshadows may have seen these pop bottles in his part of the country. I've made lots of them from old milk glass or just about anything that will knap.

The story goes that plains Indians would break out the red lenses from lights along the then new railroad tracks and make them into points.

 

[TwoShadows]

Ale8 was made just a few miles from here at Horse Cave. Ky. A mom and pop (no pun intended) operation. Been out of business for several years, although the bottles are quite collectable now they tell me.

On the same subject, I may have caused a culture shock and change in Brazil. The two friends from there were at the recent rendezvous, and learned to ask for a soft drink by asking for a "bellywasher" or "sodypop". I think "Nehi" or "Big Arnge" (orange) was beyond them.....