To all my customers, old and new:  please add shipping on ALL ORDERS.  Also, Florida residents please add 7% sales tax unless you have a tax number.  I try to keep shipping charges low.  Most single points only $2.50, insurance is extra.  Please hold payment until I notify you of shipping costs.  Thanks.

Suwannee Base  Paleo Madison Co. FL
1 1/2" by 1 1/2"  $20 order a4615
COMMENTS:  finished base, spectacular translucent stone, probably snapped off at point of hafting during use.

Heavy Duty Bone Point  Taylor Co. FL SOLDJR
4 3/16"  a4614
COMMENTS:  this pin is made from a halved section of deer cannon bone, instead of a quartered section, which is much more common.  The result is a thicker, wider shaft suitable for heavy use.  This may have been hafted into a sturdy bone handle, or possibly a heavy atlatl shaft.

Bone Handle made from Giant Tortoise  Paleo  Columbia Co. FL SOLDJR
5 1/4"   a4613
COMMENTS:  handle made from an extinct Pleistocene tortoise of the genus Hesperotestudo (formerly called Geochelone).  This is likely the same genus as the one found in Little Salt Spring which was deemed Geochelone crassiscutata.  Other extinct megafauna found there also include mastodon, sloth and bison.  See Milanich, Florida Archaeology, p.38.

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Hendrix Scraper  Transitional  Suwannee Co. FL SOLDBT
4"  a4612.
COMMENTS:    beautiful brown patina.

Bone Tool,  Beamer?  Taylor Co. FL
6 1/8"  $50 order a4610
COMMENTS:  this is a deer cannon leg which shows heavy use, apparently extreme rubbing, such as a beamer, smoother, etc.

Burnisher Tool  Levy Co. FL  SOLDJR
3 1/2" x 2 1/2"  a4604
COMMENTS:  smoothed all over, probably used to soften hides.
 

Bison Bones from 1600s Plains Indians Midden  Early Contact Period  Merrick Co. Nebraska
$25 per flat, $75 for all four flats.
COMMENTS:  The material offered here is from two middens on the Loup River near St. Paul, NE.  This site is from what is called the Lower Loup people of proto-Pawnee.  Since there was no evidence found of horses here, and since it is certain the Pawnees here had horses by 1720 and most likely by 1700,  it seems probable the material dates from the 1600s.  Evidence of trade with the French is supported by the presence of glass beads, thin copper sheets sometimes rolled into beads and bangles, as well as offset iron awls and other scraps of iron.  Pottery, flint tools and arrow points were abundant, as well as many bison bones.  Besides the bison and the dogs, other animals apparently eaten by the village residents include, deer, elk, fish, birds, beavers and rats.  All the large leg bones are broken to extract the marrow.  Below are some of the beads and small arrowpoints also found in the midden.

ANIMAL EFFIGY  Taylor Co. FL
1 3/8"  $350  order a4428
COMMENTS:  made of wood, may represent a bird or other animal.  Screened from the muddy gravel from a creek on private property.  Stabilized with preservative. 

FLORIDA POTTERY

Weedon Island Punctated  Woodland  Central Florida  $40
 

Unidentified Simple Stamped  Woodland  Central Florida  $40

Swift Creek Complicated Stamped  Woodland  Central Florida  $50

Deptford Check Stamped    Woodland  Alachua Co. Florida $225

Deptford Plain  Woodland  Marion Co. FL
restored  $200 order a4306

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Stone Gorget  Woodland or Late Period  Hamilton Co. FL
3 3/4"  $1250  order a2959
COMMENTS:  very rare in Florida, seldom offered.  Nice brown patina.

Archaic Knife Citrus Co. FL 
5 1/8"  $375 order a2771
COMMENTS:  thin and nicely flaked, large size, pretty blue and white.