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The following awls are all from Citrus and Levy Counties,: FL and are made from quartered deer canon bones.  Green bone is very hard and suitable for many tasks:  spear shaft tips, leather punches, hair pins, fish gigs with barbs attached, separating tendons and joints from large game, etc.  Universal throughout many epochs from Paleo to Contact, with age they become very brittle and it is rare to get complete ones with any length.  The largest below measures over eight inches, almost unheard of, and other are over seven.

 




Hair Pin 
7 3/8" $300 order a2679
COMMENTS:  long, slender, very delicate,  curved hair pin, no flaws, a miracle it is not broken.  This is one of the finest pins I have had.  Pins of this length and quality are rarely available.

 


6 15/16"  solid, round, no flaws  $200  order a3020  wpe1.jpg (1118 bytes)

 

 



6 3/8"  $75 order a3019 scored one end, evidence of tying  wpe1.jpg (1118 bytes)HOLDdm

 

 


7 1/8"   $85 order a3018  left end scored to accept barb, likely. wpe1.jpg (1118 bytes)HOLDdm

 

 


7 1/2"  $150  order a3017  wpe1.jpg (1118 bytes)

 

 


6 3/4"  $150 order a3016 Purposely made wavy, no idea why.  solid , much rubbing  wpe1.jpg (1118 bytes)

 

 


8 1/4" $325 order a3015 evidence of tying, my finest awl, a miracle it is not broken.   wpe1.jpg (1118 bytes)

 

 


6 3/8"  $75 order a3014  wpe1.jpg (1118 bytes)

 



5 3/4"  $100 order a3013  both sides notched end for tying, beautifully worked. wpe1.jpg (1118 bytes)HOLDdm

 

 


5 3/4"  $75 order a3012  gouged for barb wpe1.jpg (1118 bytes)HOLDdm

 

 


4 5/8"  $75 order a3011  small diameter, round, worked symmetrically wpe1.jpg (1118 bytes)

 


5 3/8" $50  order a3010  tip flattened for barb  wpe1.jpg (1118 bytes)HOLDdm

 

 


4 1/8"  $50 order a3009  small diameter, worked all around, incised on end  wpe1.jpg (1118 bytes)HOLDdm

 

 

 



BONE DAGGER
time period uncertain.  Lake Co. FL
$975 order a2109 REDUCED!    $650   
COMMENTS:  this piece has been broken or cracked and professionally repaired, but glued only and absolutely no restoration.  It is so well done that you have to look very carefully to see the crack.  Beautiful condition, not stained dark like to many daggers, this one was lying in sugar white sand.  It has the added very unusual feature of a tiny hole drilled by the maker. This artifact was carefully examined by Claude Van Order,  recognized as the foremost expert on aboriginal Florida tool making, and he concluded that the tiny hole was drilled by the Indian.  He also stated that he had never seen another bone dagger with a similar tiny drilled hole.  *Note of special interest:  this dagger appears on pages 106 and 290  of Schroder's 2006 revised edition of The Anthropology of Florida Points and Blades.

 


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ENGRAVED HAIR PIN HOLDdm
time period uncertain  Gilchrist Co. FL
$75 REDUCED!     $50     order a1911
COMMENTS:  lines go all around like a barber pole.  Space between last two lines crosshatched both sides.


 

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