My wife and a friend have both found metal arrowheads in colorado. I have not been able to find much info. on these types of points,I would appreciate some feed back. Thanks
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I love talking about the trade era! I also live in Colorado, and I have only one complete iron point. I found it on the surface, which is very rare. I have a friend that has hundreds of metal points. Everything from a Calvery belt buckles that were cut up and made into points, he has bullet molds, bullets, tinklers/ cones, mirrors, gun barrel pipes, gun parts, files and a ton of trade beads. He uses his metal detector though! I think one reason we have so many around here is because it is relatively dry, no humidity. Also the most occupying tribe in the Colorado during the "historic" era were the Utes. They were among the friendliest to the whites and traded a lot of goods. Metal points were originally traded by the Spanish around the mid 1600's, and tribes continued to trade with trappers and settlers alike. There are also differences in the types of metal points. The one I found was an indian made point, that was salvaged from another piece of metal. There were also white made trade points like the Little Big Horn form from the North West. I will get a good pic of mine and get it posted. I'd also like to see a photo of your metal point! They are very valuable (more than any book will tell you) because they are rotting away as we speak! Also, not many are sold from private hands...
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