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Selected Pictures from the 2022 July Journal

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Very early smoking pipe

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Very early smoking pipe – likely Glacial Kame culture. Discovered by Tom Bellinger in Union Township, LaPorte County, Indiana. Length = 2 7/8” ; diameter = 2”. Made of highly polished cannel coal. Tom Bellinger photographs. Read about this and other interesting items in The Hopewell Connection: Drug Lords Along the Ohio by Richard Michael Gramly, Ph.D., North Andover, Massachusetts.

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Native copper celt

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Figure 6. Native copper celt or adze weighing 5 pounds, 4 ounces, which was recovered by a backhoe at GE Mound (the Mount Vernon site), Posey County, Indiana. It measures 11.5” (29.2 cm) in length. Note decayed leather remnants and adhering drilled pearl beads. This specimen has been stabilized. See Gramly 1997a: 36. Read about this and other interesting items in The Hopewell Connection: Drug Lords Along the Ohio by Richard Michael Gramly, Ph.D., North Andover, Massachusetts.

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Full-groove bi-pointed war club heads

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Full-groove bi-pointed war club heads. Read about these and other interesting items in Grooved Stone War Club Heads by Edmund Butkus, Crown Point, Indiana

See this and other great relics in the CSASI 2022 July Journal