An interesting Cody complex points/lithic

[Steve Valentine]

Originally Posted by Indianasmith

Wow!!! I think I would just mess my pants and faint if I found something that good!!!

I guarantee it!!

Awesome Cody assemblage Tom. Thanks for sharing those with us.

[Clayton]

cool post Tom, that eden is unbelievable! can't wait to read the article

[IowaCollector]

The Eden is incredible!!! One of my favorite point types.

The Cody Knives aren't too shabby either!!

[Ryno]

Those are beautiful!

[MikeE]

Nice stuff there Tom. those Edens are a "special" in the artifact world. The very finest skills were required to make the best ones I have seen, in pictures. When quality of work reaches " master level ", artistic inspiration results.
I put in this picture of three blacks I have from Neb. Far right is a familiar Permian stuff. the far left is a highly silicious precambrian basalt probably from the Heartville uplift fault zone. the middle material is very fine chalcedony with dark impurities, glossy with some translucency near the edges. I am very interested in your article. M
ps love the book!!

[Tom Westfall]

Thanks Mike...appreciate your kind words about the book. Thanks for the pic as well. Best wishes, Tom

[Hippy]

Mike, the far right Pelican Lake looks a lot like Winterset Chert from South Central Iowa and Northwest Mo. We see similar lightning banding in Moline Chert as well.

Hippy

[MikeE]

Very interesting Hippy. I was advised that it was probably permian chert from the flint hills area..but you might have it right. I found this a few years back when I got road weary crossing Iowa and found a spot to park south of Beatrice and walked along the Big Blue for a few hundred yards. Found in plain sight on a sand bar near the bank. I will have to research Winterset Chert, Im not that familiar with, but Moline I have samples of.
many thanks
M