Need help identifying late grandfathers artifacts

[treasuregirls]

Need help identifying late grandfather's artifacts

Hey everyone,

My grandfather passed away a few years ago and I've since inherited his collection. He was an amateur archeologist and an archeology instructor at his local high school. There's a bunch of arrowheads, pottery shards, and some bones. But there's a few things I'm not entirely sure about. If anyone could help me identify some of these items, it would be greatly appreciated! I'm sorry if these are blurry. Let me know if yall need clearer or more detailed photos. The clay figurine I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if they think it is authentic or not.

 

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[quito]

Well, it looks like a nice hair pin, and an I don't know. Then there is a natural pebble with a hole in it. I don't believe it's an artifact. The small cupped piece looks like it could be a paint cup. I can't say anything about the figurine, but the last piece is another nice bone pin or awl.

 

[treasuregirls]

Thank you for your help. I have a few of the rocks with holes in then towards the top. Do you think they were used as pendants on necklaces? And the last one pictured haso a tiny hole in it as well. I see awl was used to punch holes in leather and things of that nature. Could it have been used as a sewing needle or possibly also a pendant?

 

[Trezurehunter]

Could the ones with holes in them be gorgets ?

 

[treasuregirls]

I don't think they are gorgets. I have a gorget. I didn't know what it was called though so thanks for that. Here's a picture of the gorget and the other rocks.

 

[newnan man]

That gorget is a really nice one. If you can, show us all your Grandfathers collection. Thanks

 

[joshuaream]

The figurine is a tourist item from central Mexico. The face is probably ancient, put on a modern made piece of pottery. Those style of faces came from small dolls with arms and legs. You can google Teotihuacan Pottery Head to see thousands like yours.

 

[treasuregirls]

Here's about half of his collection. The other half is at my patents' house. There are about 130 points shown there. I have about 30 more in a case that he set up in my office.
Here's a brief description of each picture.
1. Arrows and quiver
2. Cooking balls
3. Bones and tools made from bones
4. What I believe to be hatchet blades. They are cut to thin edges on one side and shaved flat on the other. There's a, what I believe replica, hatchet in the picture as well.
5. The whole collection
6. Arrowheads, spearheads, and blades. As well as a gorget and what I think are beads.
7. Unidentified rocks on the right and unidentified clay objects on the left.
8. Tools
9. Pipe and flute
10. Pottery shards

 

[joshuaream]

You picture with the bone tools contains everything from sharks teeth that are millions of years old, a gator tooth, a baculum of a raccoon (***** bone), maybe an aligator scute or hunk of turtle shell, deer teeth, some older looking bone tools, and what looks a lot like a human femur.

The arrows look like they are from the Amazon, are the feathers colorful?

 

[treasuregirls]

I actually just realized what the racoon bone was. I worked with a woman that kept one in her hard hat for some reason.
The arrows have black feathers. Turned in the right light they look greenish blue. Like starlings' feathers. But they could be from the amazon, I suppose. He never left the country as far as I know but he could have definitely gotten them from a pow wow.