after your gone ?

[StonedAge]

i kno everyone here has giving this some thought, on who or where your artifacts will be when ur gone, possibly hand them down from generation to generation, but u also want to make sure who they are handed down to is going to respect it and not just sell them all, tell me what yall think bout this. my problem is my girlfriend cant have children so mine will prolly be lowered down with me in the box..... o well id like to hear what some of you are thinking... merry christmas.


Jonathan

[comanche]

This is a Good Question Stonedage.

The fact that once I am gone.I will not really have control of where my artifacts might go,,,,,So with that said I would like to give them away Before I go ,,,,if at all posssible./////c

[marksimerson]

My daughter Karly will my collection.

[FairfieldOH]

I am lucky that my daughter Hannah has a huge interest in the hobby, and has a respect for where they came from. For now, they will first go to my wife, who also has a great deal of respect for them, and enjoys them, and then to Hannah. If my son Dylan also takes to the hobby, they can split them.

[longtimefree]

a question that gos through my head concerning all of my worldly goods, twice in my life i have given my collections to museums which display and give credit to the donators,one a native American museum on a reservation , one to a private museum on a college campus, and the last time i gave them to a friend who eventually gave them back, my children have no interest in anything i collect ,so i think i will be giving my stuff to a museum again, and my Missouri collection will end up back there i am sure, i consider what i collect to belong to the world i am just the rescuer, to many of my old hunting grounds are buried under golf courses churches or residential housing , i often wonder if they are better off hidden away for the next 2-3 thousand years , untill some college kids start to peel away the layers and wonder like i do at the function of this or that stone tool, what that design on they pottery shard meant to the individual who scratched it there two thousand years ago, then i think of all the people here at the arrowheadology site and i say nah, lets rescue them now.

[Indianasmith]

Collections that go into museums are rarely seen by the public. I've told my wife, when I'm gone, sell em all! I've enjoyed finding them, let others enjoy owning them when I am gone.

[jamiebenedickt]

I would like them to go to my son who is only 8 and is showing some interest. Especially the ones I have already inherited. But if not, somebody like Jim Bennets auctions were serious buyers are would be my second choice. Definitely not a museum where they are stuffed away. Im having that problem with part of my grandfathers huge collection , the museum is too small to display all his stuff and I cant get them out. But I do keep a watchful eye so they dont sell them.

[jbridered]

Great topic and i ask myself that question all the time. Still don't know the answer.

[Trask]

Great question ( I think we've pondered it before) and it's always worth revisiting...Longtime..I like your perspective as it relates to the fact that we are merely "holding" these pcs. of history for a time. Where they go after I go depends on where life leads me..At this time they go to my children who have been present and active in our hunting. I hope our relics continue to open other worlds in the respective minds of my children as they grow. Essentially that's what the "things" we have found are to me and that's why they are sacred. They represent a bridge from another heritage and another place in time..and now they give yet another generation of people, in another time, a reason to pause and consider where it all belongs and why.

[Scotto]

My son will be married soon, and maybe mine will go to my grandchildren someday. I don't have any "high-end" pieces like Clovis or Folsom, I mainly self-collect and what I find is what I appreciate the most.
Never really thought about it too much to be honest, I collect for my own personal pleasure and what happens to them when I'm gone isn't a major concern I guess.