First ever find: Nodena Classic perhaps?

[sailorjoe]

Wow Joshua. Those are some amazing points you have acquired. Your post is very informative. Thanks.

[Mattern]

Hay Taylor it really doesn't matter for me what they call it. It's a sweet Artifact. K

[BoilerMike]

Sweet blade/point. Welcome, also from central Indiana!

[Hyzer]

Nice one for the kiddo! Keep hitting the gravel bars in that creek and you'll get your first one.

[clovisoid]

My profile picture has a bunch of classic Nodena points from the Nodena site and a few other sites in Arkansas and Missouri. They are one of types that were likely cached as quivers of arrows. (Perino excavated them hafted on shafts, but didn't carry a camera. The shafts were basically stains in the dirt.)

There are similar points found at Mississippian typically the Ft Ancient & Caborn-Welborn sites in Indiana. Willow Leaf is a more common name for them in Indiana, but like Nodena they come in a utilitarian version and a cache quality version.

Any chance you are near the Wabash River? (They are found more in the Wabash drainage than the White River drainage.)

A picture of the cache ones from my collection- ex Townsend

[gregszybala]

Nice find and welcome to the forum.

[WAH]

You can't find potato chips that thin

[Fla.Hillbilly]

nice blade

[sailorjoe]

Hi taylorr and welcome to our forum from Alabama. Regarding the type. I never found a Nodena and my old hunting grounds supposedly falls within their range of distribution. Although your point looks like it could be a Nodena base upon its outline, the resources I have all say that Nodenas are ellipitical in cross section whereas your point is flattened in cross section. Maybe some Nodenas turned out flattened, who knows. But what I see does not able me to call it a Nodena. Nevertheless it is a dandy point. Maybe this will whet your appetite to start looking for them and join the ranks of many on our forum who have a passion for this hobby.

[taylorrr]

Found Central Indiana, United States, in a creek bed. My kiddo found it. I am only guessing Nodena based on Google searches. I have never found an arrowhead before. Anyone have more accurate identification or information?