Saturday, May 24, 2014

Just ask Lou about obsidian


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  1. Not a ground edge, but rather a sheared one. Made much in the same way one flakes flint.

    There is sharp, really sharp, damned sharp, and then obsidian.

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  2. That explains why the Meso American warriors found them useful in combat.

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  3. Such beautiful blades. Ran across a flint knapper while in the back of beyond Oregon one summer pushing cows. He made me an awesome obsidian blade, some arrow heads, and a skinning blade all for the tender of a homemade pie. It never seemed an even swap...

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  4. Lou here, it's really a great (and long) story but suffice it to say that the result of me teaching my daughter how the indians sourced their obsidian in the Warner mountains I wound up in the ER in Alturas with a six inch gash on my shin that required ten stitches to repair. My daughter, at age 7, was very impressed with how Dad had been cut on a cellular level...have you ever tried to convince a 7 year old woman to give you her T-shirt to stop the bleeding so Dad could limp down the hill to the truck: which of course was my trusty Scout....

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