OHIO ARCHAEOLOGIST VOLUME 35 NO. 3 SUMMER 1985 Published by THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO The Archaeological Society of Ohio Gordon Hart, 760 N Main St , Bluffton, Indiana 46714 EXPIRES O.A.S. OFFICERS David J Snyder, PO Box 388. Luckey, Ohio 43443 1986 President Don Gehlbach, 3435 Sciotangy Dr., Columbus, Dr Phillip R Shnver. Miami University. Oxford. Ohio 45056 Ohio 43221 -Tele: Home 459-0808. Bus 888-3572 Robert Hartei 1961 Buttermilk Hill. Delaware Ohio Associate I ''i'" Martha P otto, Ohio Historical Society, 1986 Vice President Scott Haskins, 2160 Fitzroy Dr.. Apt. A-6, Columbus, Ohio Columbus, Ohio 43224-Tele: Home 476-4843 Jeff Carskadden 960 Eastward Circle, Colony North 1986 Exec. Sect Martha Otto. 2200 E. Powell Rd., Westerville, Zanesville Ohm 43/01 Ohio 43081 -Tele: Home 846-7640, Bus 466-1500 Ext. 256 AII articles reviews and comments on the Ohio Archaeologist 1986 Treasurer Donald W. 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Chairman Eugenia Kish Jim Hahn Jim Gooding Sieve Olenick jason Greenlee Dawn Wilson Jim Pel ry Warren Mears Jane Weidnei FRAUDULENT ARTIFACTS 1 Buddy Haney (Joe Redick] Doug Hooks COMMITTEE Scott Haskins COMMITTEE TO REVIEW Dana Baker, Co-Chairman EDUCATION AND PUBLICITY CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS Steve Puttera Steve Fuller Co-Chairman COMMITTEE Robert Converse, Co-Chairman LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE Doug Hooks Robert Hill Chairman William King Chairman I )t in Bapsl Craig Cii'' ' Don Gehlbach. Co-Chairman Robert Converse Jeff Fruth Tom Grubb Dan Rosette Ernie Good James Gooding Jim Hahn Virginia Morelock Dorothy Good Martha Olto Paul Ford Mark Seeley Lar Hothem Table Of Contents President's Column Historic Contact Hammer Poll Tomahawks 4 Every year we hear of more and more What Is It? 7 spectacular field finds. Many treasurers have been recovered this year in Central Indian Intermound Orientations In Ohio 8 Ohio alone. Among recent finds have been a fine humped gorget, a repaired A Possible Piano Camp Site In Sandusky County, Ohio 11 butterfly and several exquisite members An Important Hopewell Workshop In Fairfield County, Ohio 12 of the dovetail family. Your President participated in field work (described Points and Barbs 15 elsewhere in this magazine) in which a number of fine artifacts were recovered. Glacial Kame Artifacts From Fort Wayne 16 These included several highly colored The Plummet As Amulet 17 Hopewell flint ridge blades and two rare copper celts. All of this means the best Old Lyme Village Historic Contact Clay Pipes 20 collecting may be just ahead. A Cache Of Early Adena Points 22 At the time this article was written both the Vietzen meeting and Dover show of The Darby Plains 23 the summer series have been held. Both The Straite Site Excavation 24 meetings were highly successful with excellent attendance and once again Another Red Ocher Discovery In Ross County 26 those who were there enjoyed seeing regional collections including a con­ Perseverance Rewarded 29 siderable amount of site material. In An Unfinished Ottawa County Archaic Tubular Bannerstone 30 particular at the Elyria Vietzen picnic show, Stan Edwards won best of show A Large Paleo Point 32 with his late prehistoric site display from Two Knox County Artifacts 32 Sandusky Bay. One interesting aspect of this unique exhibit was that much of Tremper Mound Farm To Be Sold 33 the site is submerged along the shore­ line of the Bay and was actually exca­ Ancient Art Of The American Woodland Indians 34 vated by boat. At our Dover meeting we were treated to an outstanding display of paleo mate­ rial belonging to Ken Spahr and again had the opportunity to see the quality collection of John Kohr. John's notched ovates were a highlight. Both were award winners. We appreciate the efforts of these indi­ viduals and many other fine people who help to make the summer meetings successful. A brief note—The Sugar Creek group of the A.SO. have been working at the Yant mound and village site as a chapter project. Other chapters in the state might take notice and develop similar activities which build interest in amateur archae­ ology, provide invaluable education to members and add important information to the archaeological record in Ohio. D. R. Gehlbach, President Front Cover Back Cover Artifacts from the collection of Don Bapst, Briggsdale, Knobbed crescents, collection of Don Bapst, Briggs­ Ohio. dale, Ohio. Engraved pipestone boatstone—Scioto County, Ohio. Small banded slate horseshoe-shaped crescent—Mum- Fossiliferous limestone gorget—Glover's cave, Christian ford farm, Morrow County, Ohio. County, Kentucky. Banded slate crescent with large knobs—Newville, Rich­ Serpentine bannerstone —Stark County, Ohio. land County, Ohio. Pipestone bannerstone —Coolville, Athens County, Ohio. Long knobbed crescent—Franklin County, Ohio. Green and brown chlorite bannerstone—Venice Twp., Seneca County, Ohio. Historic Contact Hammer Poll Tomahawks By Phillip R. Shriver Miami University Braddock near the forks of the Ohio In his authoritative study entitled particularly in the style of warfare prev­ alent in the East during the seventeenth River in 1755 at the beginning of the American Indian Tomahawks, Harold L. French and Indian war and who success- Peterson has observed that The metal and eighteenth centuries. In the nine­ teenth century West, the tomahawk was fully fought the armies of Generals trade tomahawk has long been an object Josiah Harmar and Arthur St. Clair in of fascination for both amateur collector less important as a weapon. Customs of warfare were different, and often in­ 1790 and 1791 in the Indian wars in and ethnologist. Few other implements eastern Indiana and western Ohio. Black have ever combined so many different volved the horse. Even so, tomahawks were used [in the West]... and there are Hoof died near Wapakoneta in what was functions: tool, weapon, scepter, symbol then called "Black Hoof's Town" (now and smoking pipe. In this one instru­ skulls in the Army Medical Museum bearing tomahawk wounds which were St. Johns) in 1831 at the advanced age ment is collected the lore of handicraft, of 102. His long-stemmed catlinite pipe warfare, prestige, ceremony and per­ collected as late as 1869.... Because of its importance and constant use as a as well as his hammer poll tomahawk sonal comfort." Supported in his re­ still remain.