High End Native American Artifact Auction
Lot 304:
13" Caribou Billet Fossil Found in SW Iowa
13" Caribou Billet Found in SW Iowa. This certainly appears to be a billet. The hammer/heavy end is rounded from use or wear. The area where it washed out in SW Iowa is rich in Paleo that wash out in to the rivers in that part of the country. This horn is likely from the late pleistocene as Caribou were present during that period in Iowa. The heavy sandstone build up on it also suggests as much. Of course there is the chance that mother nature wore the hammer end to how it is but the base of the bone where you would hold it does not have the same effect. This is either an extremely ancient tool or one that mother nature fabricated to appear as such. Caribou is one of the toughest horns that exists to be used as a tool by Native Americans throughout the ages.
Condition: Ancient Authentic
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