Stone paint bowl?

[CoolFrayers]

Hello People,
I live on a creek here in Pennsylvania and sometimes find old indian stone fishing net weights, but today I found this.
At first I thought it was a paint gun ball that was mushed...after picking it up I realized it is a rock, and a strange one at that.
The inside is red, I am scratching my head wondering if it is due to iron deposits that have have sat in the rock over the years, or could it be a little bowl for indian painting?
I have never found anything like this before, so I thought I would post it to see what the response was.
Little cool rock? Or, possible Indian artifact?

 

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[CoolFrayers]

Thanks Texastee, I "hope" it is myself also.
Of course my wifes first response is: "What's it worth?"
*CoolFrayers* shakes his head.... typical wife question, lol.
Someday she will understand the fun is in the discovery and research, not the value, lol; still love her loads.

 

[IronSpike]

Great ID Texastee2007

Cool find

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...=/images?q=indian+paint+stone&hl=en&sa=N&um=1

 

[DirtyMike]

What an extraordinary find! Congratulations.

 

[ipsilateral]

Very very nice.

 

[CoolFrayers]

Wow, so...from what I have been hearing, it appears it is the "real deal".
Funny thing actually, we have SO MANY kids with paintball guns around I wasn't even going to pick it up, something just made me look twice. We are having a lot of things "wash up" since our major flood 2 years ago.
Happy happy feet me!