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Eastern Nevada, Great Basin ancient Arrowheads, Points and Carved Relics [118170]

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Eastern Nevada, Great Basin ancient Arrowheads, Points and Carved Relics  [118170]
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Seven Riker mounts full of arrowheads, drills and points of varying nature (a few beads, too) and one riker mount of chards of pre-historic hand carved patterned shale, all from eastern Nevada, collected by David and J F Miles of Ely, Nevada c 1920. The Miles brothers teamed up with Nevada financier and politician Key Pitman, (later Senator from Nevada) to form the Ely Cosmological Society, a society to protect Native American sites. The group worked with the Smithsonian on sites in eastern Nevada in the late 1920s. A story on this Society is elsewhere in this catalog, accompanied by original photographs and a small library from this group.
The points number several hundred and include typical Nevada red and brown chert, black obsidian, but also include more scarce rock types such as white chert and quartz and various colored agates. The points range from tiny "bird" points to typical 1" small animal (rabbit, etc) points to 2" elongated points, longer knives and several spear points, hide scrapers and odd tools. The beads includes shells, carved turquoise (two semi-round carved pieces with a hole for suspension - one of which is broken in half), small carved stone and other odditries. There are several ornamental carved stone pieces clearly used as "jewelry", with attendant wear. There is one rusty iron piece used as "jewelry" with a carved pattern. Several glass "trade" beads.
There are nine carved shale fragments. Fragments such as these arre mentioned in D'Azevedo's Handbooik of Noth American Indians, v11, Great Basin, p232. From our experience, these are very rare. D'Azevedo's Great Basin volume accompanies the lot.

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