Thursday, July 14, 2011

Bone Weaving Tools from Vaillancourt/Bigford

Edwin Gibson


 I found two bone tools on the Vaillancourt/Bigford site (OND - 19) when digging with the Wednesday group during the summers of 1995-2000.  The top soil had been scraped away by a bulldozer and I found the artifacts about 6 inches below the surface.

  Peter Pratt thought they could be weaving tools.  David Moyer also thought that they were weaving tools and that the notched tool (a shuttle) and the other tool were used in the making of fishing nets.


Editor's note:  Ed brought them to our Thursday 7 July 2011 meeting. 



Dan Noble, Josh Sheldon, and Loma Wilkins look at Ed's tools.