To: decimon
Took some digging - but I finally found a photo
Looks like some kind of wieght - maybe for fishing nets/
6 posted on
09/09/2011 6:05:39 PM PDT by
maine-iac7
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To: maine-iac7
9 posted on
09/09/2011 6:08:29 PM PDT by
Jack Hydrazine
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To: maine-iac7
10 posted on
09/09/2011 6:11:00 PM PDT by
Winstons Julia
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To: maine-iac7
Thanks for the pic.
If the disks are like others in the southwestern US then I wouldn’t guess they are fishing weights. Seems like a lot of work to make one of those for a fishing weight. OTOH, they could be fishing weights for all I know.
11 posted on
09/09/2011 6:13:02 PM PDT by
decimon
To: maine-iac7
Fishing would be a good bet or maybe a gaming disk of some sort. Perhaps used something like dice or perhaps the game of marbles. Who knows, the folks have gone to the other side who made it and left no instruction book. Many Indian tribes loved to gamble, actually the current ownership of casinos by some tribes seem slightly humorous in that light.
To: maine-iac7
That is a ritual object, used in the secret, sacred fertility ceremonies of the Sand Dollar Cult.
22 posted on
09/10/2011 12:03:13 AM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
To: maine-iac7
Fish nets for shallow waters. There are several varieties which used stones or clay as weights for the bottom lines (lead line) in beach seines.
23 posted on
09/10/2011 5:33:16 AM PDT by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: maine-iac7; SunkenCiv; All
If the disc is in the palm of a hand then it is small. Aren’t there things like that used on a spindle to cause it to spin to make yarn?? Is that some kind of incised writing?
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