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  • Additions to my South Dakota bone tool frame

    Several years ago I really fell in love with the quality of bone tools found at Mandan/Arikara sites along the Missouri River in the Dakotas. 3 or 4 years ago I found an auction and ended up buying a lot of cool tools and started this frame.

    More recently part of the Loitwood family collection came up for auction, and I was kind of bummed because the auctioneer doesn’t do online bidding. A great artifact friend, Quito/Joel from South Dakota was also going to the Loitwood Auction, so I worked out a deal with the auctioneer and asked Joel to do some bidding for me.

    Here is the original frame, and some new additions for it. Bone fishhooks are only found in a couple parts of the US, but they were probably widely used. I added these to my collection because they show the process of how hooks were made.

    Here is the original frame:

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    My original fish hook collection.



    The recent additions:

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    Last edited by clovisoid; 07-19-2019, 07:50 PM. Reason: Added pictures
    Hong Kong, but from Indiana/Florida

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    A couple more pictures

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    Last edited by clovisoid; 07-19-2019, 07:51 PM.
    Hong Kong, but from Indiana/Florida

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    • #3
      Wow! Outstanding! Those are some killer pieces. I love the fishhooks best, but the points are cool too.
      "The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee

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      • #4
        Hey Joshua, Thanks for the update. That's a great SD Bone collection.
        Michigan Yooper
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        • #5
          Awesome frames those bone fish hooks are outstanding
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          • #6
            That’s an astounding collection! What time periods and types of bone are the fish hooks? Very cool variety of artifacts you have there!
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            • clovisoid
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              The Mandan villages that these came from date from the 1500’s-1830’s or so.

          • #7
            The bone artifacts that come from there and that period are amazing. Congrats on adding to your collection and very nice of Quito on the assist!
            Searching the fields of NW Indiana and SW Michigan

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            • #8
              WOW just WOWWWWW!!!!
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              • #9
                Another beyond museum quality collection !
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                • #10
                  What an outstanding collection!
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                  • #11
                    That is an awesome collection of bone artifacts there. Love the hooks. What are the pieces to the left of the large piece in the first frame? They look like whistles. Awesome spread man...
                    The chase is better than the catch...
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                    • clovisoid
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                      From left to right in the bigger frame.

                      Different thin bone tools and flakers. Some of them are quill flatteners.

                      There are a couple of arrowshaft straighteners (pieces with holes), and some raspers (noise makers) with slots and notches.

                      The thicker, heavier pieces are hide scrapers/fleshers used to remove fat, meat and membrane from hides.

                      The biggest piece is a hoe.

                      Next to that are some squash/pumpkin knives.

                      The rest are different types of awls and pins, and then the hooks and some decorative stuff.

                  • #12
                    OH MY Josh! Do you want me to keep those fish hooks for you until you come home from over seas??? We could have traded some of those for the catlinite pipe!! I love the fish hooks! Something about those are just super cool!!!
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                    • clovisoid
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                      Paul, thank you!

                  • #13
                    Mad cool post Joshua!
                    SW Connecticut

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                    • #14
                      Dang nice!!!

                      hoping to see some of that flint too!

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                      • clovisoid
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                        That’s coming
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