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MtnBoomer:
I think you have some intact pieces there, The Paiutes, pushed out into the lean portions of SE Oregon and Nevada, were not exactly known for generating fine art. Too busy just trying to make a living among scarce resources.

Went out with some neighbors and resupplied my obsidian buckets a couple days back. Been hammering out a couple points a day now during my dead time. Have a guy that's interested in buying some pieces and he did not even blink when I quoted $15 an inch. His plans are to shadow box them for resale in his tourist trap community.

Have a good one,

If it is hard for you to get out now.
Hit flea markets , gun shows, yard sales
You might be surprised what you might run across and whittle down on price.
Always an option.
I put a collection up for sale i had found over about 4 years
Excellent stuff
Probably about 2500 ish bucks of points
to the end of the rainbow buyer i estimated per internet sales sights
Grade 7 to 10 stuff

Sold it for 450 bucks.
Met the guy at local restaurant
Told him straight up 450 was my price
He checked em out .
Handed over 450 within 5 mins
Put it in the local peddler paper
Sold within 2 days, was getting all types of calls on em.
Lots of older guys who cant get out and hunt for em anymore.

Basically bought a pistol, ammo of various calibers, gun cleaning supplies

Turned stone into steel....

Slumlord thinks im nuts selling em
Its fun finding em, its fun confirming terrian has stuff or not doing large area probe grid walks.

All around a pretty unique hobby.

Fugga woulda never got into the hobby if it wasnt for you actually.

Neither would have I for that matter.

But at least i give ya stuff and find areas for us to hunt.

Dont mind being your padawan.

I look at you as my kid brother anyways.

Sometimes I feel like finding a likely place and proving it as a site is as much a thrill to me as finding points. I like finding points, don't get me wrong. Kinda like Turkey hunting, calling the Turkey in and seeing the show is a big part of it for me.

Lightman, if you got weak legs due to med issues, you might could focus on small construction sites, especially their 'borrow dirt' piles where they scrape off the good topsoil and save it for the back fill.

If there's any construction going on along bluffs above creek or river systems, it might be worth a shot.

Sure beats trying canvas a couple of hundred acres of open ground.

The Indians were excellet and brilliant hunters, they used a

Found a pretty busted base. Clear with brown streaks that run thru it. Wish I could have seen the whole point.

Heartbreaker. Still a beautiful piece.

This Rock was found by my maternal grand father when plowing in his aunts field as a young man. If memory of what he told me is accurate it came out of the ground along White Oak Creek, a tributary of the upper Green River in Kentucky.
All of my child hood this sat either on the window seal above the kitchen sink or on a bookshelf case in my grand parents home. It wasn't until the mid 90's that I found out what it was after seeing several of differing sizes on display at the Etowah Indian Mounds outside Cartersville, GA. I may spell it wrong but Chunkee is the word (?). A gaming piece.

IZH27!

LOL! I had to go find my Chunkey Man T-shirt from when oldest son was in school at Natchotoches La.

Chunkey was a game where they rolled the chunkey stone and threw spears at it. ( best as I remember). I think this image of the Chunkey Man came off of a shell gorget that was worn around the neck like a necklass.

Awesome shirt kaywoodie! I love the chunkey gorget. I'd wear that shirt.

I believe that your are right on the way that the game was played. I've read of another variation but throwing spears at it seems to be the main one.

This link tells about the game.

Chunkey Game and Game pieces.

Other game stones

Circle Rollers


It's interesting to see the different shapes and sizes of the stones. The one that my grandfather found seems to be a quartz. It is extremely dense. Upper and lower sides of his stone are slightly concave, the edges convex. I can only imagine the time that it took to shape one of these. It seems that they were held in such high esteem that they were passed down through the generations. There is no such stone to be found in my are of the country. I believe that you can find more examples and

Getting time for winter plowing around here.

Walk around looking for stuff on the ground.
Great hobby!!!

Found this today. On top of the desert floor. Not flint but very sandstone'ish texture but no sandstone here either. Very lightweight, much lighter than flint. Likely my best find ever...

Thats a beauty Greg.

yeah...

basalt

ground edges

Very nice!

I have a place 100 miles southeast of you Gregg, between Tombstone and Douglas. Ive gathered quite a few artifacts over 50 years living down there, and I'd hazard one in ten points I have look to be the same material with the rest being either pure white material, almost looking like quartz, then some that are a mix of the clear/white and rusty red veins running thru them, then the classic black obsidian.
Lots of metates and manos, just found a nice metate while coyote hunting in November as a matter of fact and my first find of a pendant or amulet, made from turquoise, bout the size of your thumb nail, perfect hole drilled thru the top.

Wow!!!!
Score!!!!!

Trying to do some research on this point and coming up blank. I think I may have something cool....