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Azurite Pendants
The above stone artifacts happen to be azurite pendants.
The pendants are made by taking dull looking stones and painting them
with an azurite paint made from grounded down azurite stones.
Then they are worn as sentimental ornaments of jewelry.
Azurite has streaks of blue running through it.
Blue Sky jade Pendant
The stone in the picture above is a blue sky jade pendant.
Jade also comes in a light bright green colored variety.
The stones make a beautiful addition when worn as
ornamental jewelry as well as other pendants.
Iron Pyrite
The specimens above are iron pyrite stones which in these
days as well as the old days were considered "fools gold."
Iron pyrite as well as manganese minerals were a good
indication of whether or not gold was in close proximity.
The two minerals were used in determining that Cabeza De
Vaca turned south from the southern tip of Arizona.
Iron Pyrite has no cleavage and forms in cubic shapes.
Abrader with v-notch
The stone tool above is an abrader with a v-notch.
This specimen is a small hand size version that may
have been modified from a full abrader stone tool.
The stone tool was helpful by sharpening and straightening and
rounding arrows by sliding them back and forth through the v-notch.
Adze
The above stone tool is an adze which happens to have been
broken down to half of its size and modified for something else.
This adze seems to have a notch at the smallest end which
may have helped as an edge tool with smoothing, carving,
and notching wood work done by hand.
Agate
The above stone tool happens to be an agate which has been made into
a type of micro lade or scraper. Agates can also be found in the color
of red making them fire agates. They are a microcrystalline quartz
which is also related to flint stones.
Another Stone Adze
The picture above is another stone adze which has been broken
off from a larger stone tool adze. This specimen is smoother
than the first and may have been used as a smooth stone.
Arrow Sharpener
The stone tool in the photograph above is an arrow sharpener.
This specimen has some diagonal grooves on it along with
some finger impression on the side. That is how it is held when
sharpening the tips of an wood arrow.
Arrow Straightener
The stone tool above is an arrow straightener which
is fairly smooth from all of the handling it must have
had back when the Hohokam Indian used it. It has a
socket where the arrows were the arrows were
pushed through to straighten them.
Azurite Pendant
The stone specimen above is an azurite stone
which may have been used in making azurite
dies to make azurite pendants. Or maybe it was worn
in a leather locket wrap as ornamental jewelry.
Beveled Biface
The stone tool in the photograph above is a beveled
biface. It is even on all sides making it square. This tone
tool can be used in making other stone tools. This stone tool has
many sides from being used to remove debris from
other flake from both faces of an edge.
Bifacial Flake
The stone tool in the picture above is a bifacial flake.
It has two faces giving it two sides. It can be used like a
side scraper to scrap and wear down materials.
Blue Sky Jade Pendant
The stone specimen in the picture above is a
blue sky jade pendant which could have been
used as ornamental jewelry. Jade can also
come in a bright green variety.
Broad Axe
The stone tool above is a broad axe which is used
to chop or cut down small trees and logs of wood.
The cutting end is rounded and there is a
handle on the back side.
Celt (Elongated)
The stone tool in the photograph above is a Celt
which is a stone tool similar to an adze. Can also be used like
used an axe like tool or it can be modified in to a sort of hoe.
However this specimen also looks sort of like a wedge as well.
Chisel
The above stone tool is a chisel which is a tool that has
a very sharp edge and it is used to cut, chop, or whack
out pieces of metal and wood work. This stone tool
is fairly rounded on the ends.
Cobblestone Sinker
The picture above is a cobblestone sinker which is
used with a fishing string. It can also be used with
a net weight sinker and fishing hook. Eventually grooves
will wear in making it similar to a net weight sinker.
Below is a link to "Mysterious Mineral Collection" subpage 7.
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