Meteorite Aboriginal Artefact / Knife From Henbury Australia

[olboy]

Hi all

I purchased this recently for very little but was told from the previous owner it had been given to them by a local indigenous person in the 50's.

It is in fact an Australian Aboriginal Knife. I know this as I have collected Aboriginal Artefacts since I was a boy....some 50 years.

What I don't know is the stone.....what do they say 'don't believe the story'.

I have never seen this type of stone in any artefacts I have owned and I've had them all from this vast country.

The stone shines like steel, is considerably heavy for what it is and a magnet is drawn to it but I'm not a geologist, not in this context anyway.

I'd ask people's thoughts if they'd so kindly give them.

Regards
Wayne

 

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[pepperj]

Photo #3 looks like it has a cut/broken edge.
Very cool looking-I can't see where it has been worked by man, though was the natural shape repurposed for a knife?

 

[olboy]

It has 2 very distinct knapping marks and 2 flat sides that have been ground down. And also a hard 'butt' knapping which is a very common way of knapping knives going back 70,000 years.

It is cool as I'm not sure what it is and love the research to finding out.

I noticed here there was another poster that mentioned the Aborigines used these as tools, so maybe I'm on the right path being here.

 

[olboy]

 

[GoDeep]

Do you have some pictures of the other aboriginal artifacts you've been collecting the last 50 years you can share?

 

[olboy]

Do you have some pictures of the other aboriginal artifacts you've been collecting the last 50 years you can share?

Some beside me as I write.

 

[Indian Steve]

I read somewhere that the aboriginal people would take the glass insulators off of telegraph poles to use to make blades. Do you think that is what your points that look like glass are made of?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Meteorite is nice but it looks like it was cut not worked.

 

[olboy]

I read somewhere that the aboriginal people would take the glass insulators off of telegraph poles to use to make blades. Do you think that is what your points that look like glass are made of?

Most of these were made from bottle glass due to their thinness in their body, the top left purple one and another amber one top centre are definitely from insulators. The bottom left ones are made from old ceramic plates, which are rarer.

 

[olboy]

Yes there is a side that looks like it has been shaved roughly but none of it isn't unlike how they formed a knife, it has the characteristics of all my knifes.

I'll find an image of something similar in their usual stones.