69327--Turkey Tail, Sonora Flint, but very thick

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69327--Turkey Tail, Sonora Flint, but very thick

69327--Turkey Tail, Sonora Flint, but very thick
69327--Turkey Tail, Sonora Flint, but very thick
69327--Turkey Tail, Sonora Flint, but very thick
69327--Turkey Tail, Sonora Flint, but very thick

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Price: $65.00
Status: Available

As a hafted knife, it'd work, but it looks like even from the start the Late Archaic knapper had trouble--he couldn't thin the preform due to a very strong stack on one face. The preform was centered in a nodule, the bullseye shows on the 'finished-out' face, but the effect of that bullseye showed as a stack on the reverse that couldn't be thinned. Even if the blade was worked-in to a narrow blade form, that stack wasn't going away. Length is good at 3&9/16" by 1&11/16", but the thickness tops out at 13/16". The tip, the stem, and the hafting area are all proportional, but where the flint wouldn't thin, the blade is really thick. The finder hunted somewhere in the Elizabethtown, Kentucky, area, he found many, many Sonora Flint Turkey Tails, but seemingly very few intact points/ blades--that, or the family chose not to sell them, I didn't learn which it was. This long knife blade ends in a small flat plane, not broken, just never finished-out for whatever reason. The main face, I've scrubbed three times with acetone to get off the heavy coat of glue that stuck the piece to a picture frame--some more is yet to clean--you see a shiny spot, it's more of "Bill D.'s glue job". The point is real, but it's one you either like--or you don't--the photos tell the story. Shipping is $6.00, payment taken by check or M.O., but paypal is not accepted--Roy A.

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