what in the world are these extra smooth rocks????

[larson1951]

This is half of what my friend bought at an auction sale 4 yrs ago
he paid 100 bucks for all of them and then sold me half of them
he had a couple really nice big black ones
in the 1rst picture the one with the dime on it is very soft
this soft one is also shown on image #'s 4 and 5
all the rest are very hard material with several of them being granite
they show no signs whatsoever of any use like hammering, pounding, or grinding
my friend said the people with the auction had a 2 gallon pail of KRF points that sold for 300 bucks
I wish I would have been there

Now can anyone tell me what these could be?

 

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[deepsix47]

Has anyone seen actual cooking stones? Maybe? Just a thought.

Cooking stones was my first thought also. I give demonstrations at PowWows, Rendezvous and Historical Events sometimes and use stones very similar to these. I also demonstrate brain tanning. Although I occasionally use a stone. I perfer to use a rounded branch from a willow.

As per another post, you might want to rethink your "Earth Lodge" comment. There are Tipi rigs all over the Dakotas and they were very common among all of the Nations in that area. The "Earth Lodges" did not come into wide spread use until after white contact.

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[Tnmountains]

Has anyone seen actual cooking stones? Maybe? Just a thought.

Cooking stones was my first thought also. I give demonstrations at PowWows, Rendezvous and Historical Events sometimes and use stones very similar to these. I also demonstrate brain tanning. Although I occasionally use a stone. I perfer to use a rounded branch from a willow.

As per another post, you might want to rethink your "Earth Lodge" comment. There are Tipi rigs all over the Dakotas and they were very common among all of the Nations in that area. The "Earth Lodges" did not come into wide spread use until after white contact.




Unless it was the Creeks in the south east who built earthen lodges as a more permanent lodging .I think larson said they did the same there? lol what are these round rocks? Round rocks?
tnmtns

 

[allen]

neat bunch of buys.

 

[pronghorn]

pronghorn, how big are the teepee rings
any chance of you posting a few pictures of them

I have never taken pictures of the teepee rings, I don't know why.
I will try to get some pictures someday. One set of rings is only 8
miles away, just a quarter mile or so off my grandparents
original homestead property.
The rings vary in size, I have seen some that looked
20 feet or more in diameter and some as small as maybe 12.
I have heard of many locations of these rings here in southwestern N Dak,
I have only visited three of them.

I am no expert but it is my understanding that the Native Americans used
the rocks on the outside of the teepee to hold down the excess hide material
and to seal the teepee to the ground
Is that correct? If so they would more than likely roll them off in an outward
direction from the center of the teepee when pulling up camp,
thus making it hard to judge what the original diameter of the actual teepee was.
The rock rings I have seen are what people here call field rock, very rough and
irregular shapes. I have never seen any markings or indications of polishing in the
ring rocks I have observed.

Didn't the plains indians grind dried berries and dried jerky to make pemican (sp?)
perhaps these could be stones used for that.
I am not saying your stones aren't something used by Indians, they sure could be.