A search of online auction sites reveals a number of offerings for Native American paint pots. Any rock that nature has eroded into bowl-like structures are often construed as paint pots. Here is just a sample of rocks sold as paint pots by the knowledgeable and/or the uninformed. I bought these in the early years of my collecting and fortunately, spotting the seller's error and alerting him, he refunded my money and told me to keep the rocks. At least he was honest enough not to try and re-sell them, knowing what they were.
Unless you can find/see evidence of pigments ground into the bowl, you are most likely looking at a natural formation created by turbulent water. In recent years folks here on the forum have shared some amazing finds they were convinced were NA artifact, only to be told that their finds were instead sculpted by Mother Nature, who is an amazing artist. We've seen faces, fetishes, runes, and writings, only to learn they were entirely natural, unaltered by man.
I confess that if I spotted one of these tiny "pots" lying in or beside a creek, my heart would give a momentary leap, but on closer examination would be unable to prove any of these had been altered or used by man. Lesson learned!
Unless you can find/see evidence of pigments ground into the bowl, you are most likely looking at a natural formation created by turbulent water. In recent years folks here on the forum have shared some amazing finds they were convinced were NA artifact, only to be told that their finds were instead sculpted by Mother Nature, who is an amazing artist. We've seen faces, fetishes, runes, and writings, only to learn they were entirely natural, unaltered by man.
I confess that if I spotted one of these tiny "pots" lying in or beside a creek, my heart would give a momentary leap, but on closer examination would be unable to prove any of these had been altered or used by man. Lesson learned!
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