Native American Artifacts at the Indiana State Museum

Host Rick Crosslin looks at Native American tools with the Indiana State Museum's Archeologist

[victoriawilkes]

This is very helpful and educational. I have a number of pieces found over my 66 yrs . And enjoy looking for more . Ive had to slow down due to health reasons. That's why I like these videos.Takes me back.

[karenemanley]

Brilliant beginners guide delivered eloquently. I am wife of Myaamia who studied Anthropology & collects artifacts.

[ArtifactRescues]

I have watched this video so many times and always enjoy it. I wish we had someone like you in Missouri to help identify some of our finds.

[aureaphilos]

Wonderful video! I inherited a cigar box - just like the ones on the table in your video - from my father, which contained 37 lithic artifacts. One is a notched stone ax, one is a "celt" just like the one discussed, and a wide assortment of Archaic to Adena spear points. Although my family are all from central New York state, an archeologist who saw them said they were more midwestern in origin. Indeed, New York cherts are dark gray, but most of my artifacts are off-white to light gray. I wish your video description included additional resource links.

[leesanders]

Very Very interesting and well made. Here in Tennessee I have found a few artifacts over the years. I have a beautiful Copena point, celt and some scrapers that I enjoy. Thanks for the excellent video!

[carlchristensen]

Great video when I was a young boy my father expressed the importance of site numbering and mapping all the sites and artifacts so they will be known where they were found very important

[JohnSmith-ssot]

Thanks for the video. It has helped me understand what some of there artifacts are. I have been hooked on hunting arrow head ever since I found some in my grandfather's garden in Ohio back in the early 1970's.

[copperhead]

Great video, I live in Northwest Alabama. My uncle took me Indian artifact hunting at age 10 and I was hooked, now at age 64 I have searched my life to find more.

[juliamadison]

Such a fine collection..really fascinating.

[stay_curious_BATS]

I’m in Chickasaw territory, NE MS. A friend talked about arrowheads and I wound up here. I want to find them, what an amazing people. I grew up in Indiana. Wonderful video. I want to learn more.

[MartinSoundLabs]

so glad I stumbled across this video! Thanks for doing this!

[joyciejd]

I loved this. Very interesting and I loved how she backed up her identifications. Learned more through this video than trying to decipher what’s written in ID guides. Thanks for posting!

[josefizquierdo]

Recently, I've found some Native American relics in my own backyard, which used to be a pond at one point. Sadly, I had overlooked many of them, thinking that they were just normal stones and rocks.

[Quarton]

Growing up on my family's farm, I found a lot of arrowheads, tiny ones (for birds?) to BIG ones (spear points), axes (of different shapes and sizes), etc. I grew up on Otter Creek, in Macoupin County, Illinois. We owned the property below the Otter Lake dam. I found a nice hoe made of flint, and many of the things shown here. Many of the arrowheads I found were early and middle woodland style. We're not too far from Cahokia Mounds, down across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, MO. I loved to see the many different colors of materials from red, rose-red, yellow, brown, black, to white, and all colors in-between.
A cousin of mine moved to the Ft. Smith, Arkansas, area years ago, and took with him some of the arrowheads he found on our farm with him. He came across an older fellow to whom he showed his finds, and this man told him exactly where he'd found them, and much more! (He came to find out the this older man was an expert on identifying artifacts found across the U.S. Unfortunately, he has passed away.) I also had a great-uncle who had a HUGE collection, which he'd found in his travels all across the U.S. He died back in the mid- to late-1960's, and his entire collection was sold at auction (I remember looking at a rooms filled with showcases, and framed arrowheads on every wall. He even had at least one large rock with the Thunder-Bird carved on it! His collection got me looking. His name was Ira Crump. I think his entire collection was bought by an adopted daughter, who lived in WA state.
Thanks for sharing this information! I enjoyed watching. It brought back memories of visiting Dixon Mounds, Cahokia Mounds, etc. when I was younger.

[janjohannessmith]

Thanks for your opinion and your video, I was not there that day and neither are you so I appreciate your guesses and your speculation you're very honest and saying I don't know

[shelliewerner]

Informative video...but why no close ups of the items that were talked about? It would have been nice to see them up close...

[mrjamiehorn]

bet she loves the those donated Too bad they'll all go into a drawer at the Indiana Historical Museum to be seen again!!

[warrencon]

The stone point discussed at 4:35 is not a knife in my opinion.

A triangular shape's purpose is to penetrate.

Having two sharpened sides it could easily cut the person working with it as a handheld blade which is less than ideal.

Also, it is clearly notched and this indicates it was made to be attached to some kind of shaft; either an unusually large arrow or perhaps a small, slender spear.

[paulsimmons]

How to get close enough to game to use a spear even with a spear throwing mechanism? How far with accuracy and killing force can the spear be thrown?

[divindave]

The ages old storage container. The Cigar Box !