Stone carved bowl with engravings

[RedStar101]

I am posting this up for a friend that found it while walking the river in Western North Carolina specifically Transylvania County. He know's nothing of the bowl and would like to find out any information possible (age, value, origin of creators)? Any info you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

He also contacted a local archaeologist who said judging by the pictures it could have possibly been created between the dates of 3000-1000 BCE. Her reasoning behind it was the creation of pottery and carving rocks became a thing of the past. No clue if this holds and value or not.

Thanks again.

 

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[Mackaydon]

It holds artistic value as it is; and historic/educational value subject to identification.
Don.......

 

[Gunrunner61]

I know that it's made out of Soap Stone...............Cool find...............HH

 

[Thommy]

A soapstone bowl like that is a valuable artifact, to a museum or Indian "Pot Collector". It seems to me these are much rarer than pottery, and you may already know Indian Pottery can go for big bucks. The right thing to do would be loan it (with paperwork allowing you to take it back if you wanted) to a good local museum, and get credit for it as the finder. If you do decide to sell it, create a letter of Provenance, establishing exactly where and when you found it. That way, the actual history of the object follows it, and it doesn't become a "disarticulated artifact" and lose it's context in history.