planted glass fake

[huntress104]

A gentleman approached my husband recently with a point that he found in a local cave. He said he was looking around and move a rock and this point was laying under the rock. He had been told by other artifact hunters in the area that a man was going around the fields and shelters planting fake arrowheads for people to find, thinking they had the real thing. He was very excited, hoping it was the real thing. My husband brought this point home and asked me what I thought it was. Looking at it you can tell it is glass. It is very clear and the flaking on it is not that good. It has small hairline cracks running through it. I don't think the base looks right either. There is a smooh flat spot on one side, looks like a piece of window pane glass. It is a real shame that people do such things. What do you think?

 

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[larson1951]

yup
what you said,
a real shame

 

[Hot zone]

Indians did make arrowheads from Whitemans glass (Ishi, the last wild Indian was captured in 1912) and the chipping on many arrowheads is not as good as the one pictured. However, that being said, given prior knowledge of a prankster and the way it was found, probably a fake. Had he used natural material you would never suspect it!

 

[cuzcosquirrel]

It's true about Ishi. There is supposed to be a place up in the Yahi country where there is a lot of flaked glass the band picked up in the 30 or 40 years before it was wiped out. I saw a slide show back in the 1990's about his last camp, and he actually had metal he had scraped up or stolden he was using, including a saw.

I've known people who can make great arrowheads also from obsidian or flint, and put them in frames.