BosnMate
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There were some apartments built in Roseburg, OR, near the Umpqua River, but above the historic flood plain, which is where this artifact was found. When the land was leveled for the apartment buildings, this biface was turned up. It was recently given to me by my friend and apartment owner. It's made from obsidian which isn't a local stone, so it had to be packed in from quite a distance. The river is named after the Indians that live locally, so this would be an artifact of the Umpqua tribe. It's interesting to note that one of Jed Smith's men left a journal, and he phonetically spelled the local Indians "Oomp Quak," which might be closer to the proper pronunciation. The point is broken off at the back, or attachment point, and it's hard to figure if it was a knife or lance point, but it is one of the larger bi-face's that I have in my collection. The main food of the local Indians was camas bulbs and salmon. The old timers said when the salmon were running there were so many fish that it was impossible to get a horse to cross the river. Of course there were deer and elk, but they were used to a lesser extent, and even though they used buckskin for clothing, they also used the inner bark of cedar trees woven into clothing, and lived in houses of cedar planks split from cedar. The points behind were found in northern California.
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