Click to enlarge	Classic Braden Style Birdman Shell Gorget, Castalian Springs Site, Sumner County, Tennessee. Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. Photograph by David H. Dye See "A Spider Pendant by Dr. Sandy Carter, Roswell, Georgia" in the 2019 Central States Archaeological Societies April journal.
Click to enlarge	Clifton blades are found in just a small area, and appear to be a variety of an Adena “leaf” blade. They are almost always made out of the same material, which seems to originate in the local area, which is a heat-treated white chert that is of a very high grade, with many blades exhibiting a high gloss or sheen. They are usually lightly ground around the edges. Several large examples from a cache of 14 were shown in Flint Blades and Projectile Points by Lawrence(Red) Tully. He mentions another cache of 9 blades, and it appears most examples have been uncovered in caches. This cache of 6 blades was found by Byron Moore in Humphreys County, Tennessee, the largest one measuring just over 6 inches. Photograph by Steven R. Cooper Collection of Dwight Phillips, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee See these and more in the 2019 Central States Archaeological Societies April journal.
Click to enlarge	Large Mississippian copper celt with hafting stillpresent. Etowah Mounds, Cartersville, Georgia See "Differentiating Archaic, Woodland and Mississippian Copper Artifacts by E.J. Neiburger, Waukegan, Illinois" in the 2019 Central States Archaeological Societies April journal.
Click to enlarge	Erben W. Reeder (1918-?) of Paducah, Kentucky, who at one time had more than 200 worked fluorspar artifacts. He spent many years hunting the Kincaid Mounds area. His finest, though not fluorspar, was the effigy man figurine at the right, known today as the “snow man.” It was found in 1968, near a firepit in the floor of a Mississippian house. It is made from a white mineral, barite (sometimes referred to as heavy flourspar), and is highly polished. It measures 4 ½ inches in height, 2 inches in width and 1 ½ inches thick. It has oval eyes that might have once had shell inlays and crossed arms. From the side, it appears to portray a toothless old man. It was originally pictured in the Central States Archaeological Journal in July 1970 on page 111. Photograph by Steven R. Cooper See "Spar, Flourspar, Flourite and Kincaid Mounds by David Sullivan, Mayfield, Kentucky" in the 2019 Central States Archaeological Societies April journal.
Click to enlarge	Sloan point from southern Illinois. Photograph by J. E. Morrow. See "What is a Sloan Point? by Juliet Morrow, Station Archeologist, State University, Arkansas" in the 2019 Central States Archaeological Societies April journal.

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