a friends artifacts

[larson1951]

i was taking some pictures of a friends artifact collection and thought these were interesting
these were found in mandan sites along the missouri river many years ago

 

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[flintdigger]

Those are fantastic Steve. As I have said before we never find any type of metal artifact's those are very interesting. Thanks for posting these they are great !!!.

 

[11KBP]

i was taking some pictures of a friends artifact collection and thought these were interesting
these were found in mandan sites along the missouri river many years ago

Interesting for sure Steve.
All of those artifacts are related to the Mandan?
The metal has a greenish hue, is it brass or copper?

 

[natchitoches]

wow truly amazing. who was these mandan?
Surely they was not reg. America Indians

 

[leprechaun]

awesome looking finds.

 

[flintdigger]

Looks like copper to me, leprechaun.

 

[natchitoches]

wow
Prince Madoc

 

[old digger]

Very Nice Collection! Steve; maybe you ought to metal detect that field. There just might be some of those metal points out there?

 

[larson1951]

yes they are copper
yes natch i like the info and the link you posted
around here it is common for people to speak about some of the mandans having blond hair and blue eyes with welsh ancestry
there was about 90 of those huge earth lodges on our site some of the biggest could hold 100 people in ceremony's and the like
if you google mandan earth lodges you can probably see some...i have been in some of the huge rebuilt ones...they are amazing
they were built by the younger women who could build one in about a week

 

[natchitoches]

I find this very interesting.
These people had knowledge of advanced metalworking
the 3rd item from bottom looks like what is call hoe money or (Aztec money)
very interesting indeed.

 

[larson1951]

yup natch...i find it very interesting also
i was wondering about that 3rd piece also.........never seen another..do you have any pictures of others?

 

[IAMZIM]

Just amazing! Some of the coolest artifacts ive ever seen from America!

 

[bblaha]

That bottom piece looks almost exactly like a roman sword. Very interesting. Any other artifacts from that area?

 

[larson1951]

yup a whole bunch
i will try to get pictures
he has around 300 points that are perfect

 

[bblaha]

That's really cool

 

[natchitoches]

here some found in spiro mound

 

[daniel b lawson]

Where about on the Missouri river are the manden sights?

 

[Moonrover]

...
around here it is common for people to speak about some of the mandans having blond hair and blue eyes with welsh ancestry...

This could tie into research laid out in the book by Barry Fell, "America B.C."

M

 

[larson1951]

daniel they are in north and south dakota and some in southern canada

 

[digordie]

Those are awesome artifacts. Very facinating. Can we see more pics? How where they found etc.