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Apparently you have never seen atlatl weights. Most call them bannerstones, a poor name but one which stuck, some of the most gorgeous artifacts out there. And drilled through using cane to make perfectly round holes through far harder material.
Atlatls predated the bow and were gradually replaced by it but southeast indians used them to punch holes through Spanish armor and send deSoto running.
And you haven’t looked at the interior of a birch bark canoe - made on a master’s well-thought-out framework.
Boatstones.
Birdstones.
Northwest Coast masks with interlocking and moving parts.
Intricately carved slave clubs.
Soapstone bowls and effigies.
Harpoons. Seal oil lamps.
Fish hooks of bone and shell.
Ulus.
Superthin chert knives.
Wenatchie blades.
Or the art-deco looking mica designs of the Hopewell.
Or the copperwork of the Mississippians and Hopewell, from falconlike birdmen plates to three dimensional turtles fashioned from copper.
Even finer, tinier bone needles.
Semitransparent weather slickers made from seal intestine.
Chunkee gaming stone discs.
Bauxite, mudstone and pipestone figurines.
Head pots.
Adena pipes.
Cloth made as fine as the cloth on a modern day dress shirt yet without a loom, from spun dogbane and other fibers.
Cloth made from feathers and soft bison hair.
Slippers and moccasin liners made from twined fiber from Mammoth Cave.

Take a look at the book Hero, Hawk and Human Hand.