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JoJoDapyro:
I was talking to my boss today about building bows, and that I now wanted to get into knapping. He told me that his late father was quite the point collector. He goes on to tell me that He has 4 or 5, 5 gallon buckets of points, ranging from small bird points to larger knife blades and spear points. He had one in his office. Can you tell anything from the size and shape? I imagine that he would have found this in either Utah or Arizona. Thanks

Zuma:
The big one reminds me of a ball point pen.
The other objest must be the smallest broken side notched
point made in Utah/Arizona.
Well not really but it is tiny.
Zuma

TRACY:
Too funny zuma on the ball pen point!

Looks like obsidian bird point to me.

Tracy

Sasquatch:
Zuma you beat me to the pen remark.   ;D

May be the other is a blowgun dart point?  Not really though. Man that thing is small.

Mark Anderson:
There's a little museum in Globe, AZ and most of the points on the arrows there are that small. You'd be hard pressed to find one any wider than your thumbnail. My brother sent me some photos of them that I don't have anymore, if he gets on here maybe he can upload them. I think we too often over estimate the size used for normal hunting. I know if I needed to get something on the fire to eat I would use whatever I could to get it done, regardless of size.
Cool point though, and heres another thought, I wonder if we just don't find as many of the small points because, well...they're small?

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