Patagonia
18th century or earlier
Bone and stone
Height 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm), width 5 inches (12.7 cm) including mount
Provenance: London trade
A group of excavated implements mounted together on a card, the largest a long bone point worked to a narrow tip with a single barb cut into one edge and the shaft left with the porous texture of the interior of the bone. Beside it lie a broad flat blade of pale bone with a squared butt, a second barbed point, and a bone piece split into two prongs at one end. Two of the pieces are stone rather than bone, a large gray flake struck to a working edge along one side and a small dark point chipped on both faces with shoulders cut in at the base for hafting.
Several of the pieces carry old handwritten ink inscriptions running along the surface, recording where each was found. The bone has weathered to a chalky cream and the surfaces are pitted and eroded from burial, with the stone flake retaining a darker patina across one face. The group is offered as mounted.
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Patagonia
18th century or earlier
Bone and stone
Height 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm), width 5 inches (12.7 cm) including mount
Provenance: London trade
A group of excavated implements mounted together on a card, the largest a long bone point worked to a narrow tip with a single barb cut into one edge and the shaft left with the porous texture of the interior of the bone. Beside it lie a broad flat blade of pale bone with a squared butt, a second barbed point, and a bone piece split into two prongs at one end. Two of the pieces are stone rather than bone, a large gray flake struck to a working edge along one side and a small dark point chipped on both faces with shoulders cut in at the base for hafting.
Several of the pieces carry old handwritten ink inscriptions running along the surface, recording where each was found. The bone has weathered to a chalky cream and the surfaces are pitted and eroded from burial, with the stone flake retaining a darker patina across one face. The group is offered as mounted.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
