C e l es ti a l N o n e s u ch. A STUNNING and rare effigy club. A true piece of art, with incredibly complex designs which incorporate the natural imperfections of the wood. On the handle there is a human face, when viewing the profile of the human, the handle appears almost like a wolf. The other end is a fearsome looking salmon, which while on one side is very stylized, and on the other side a minimum amount of work was done to accent a large knot and the natural curves of the wood. A remarkable piece of art! Late 19th through early 20th century, most likely either Tlingit or Kwakiutl. A great object for study or display, this will make a nice addition to any student or appreciators collection of Native American art and artifacts. Exhibits signs of age such as surface wear and weathering. As they are part of the description, please enlarge all photographs to better ascertain details and condition. The packing peanuts we use are recyclable: #6. Thank you for shopping with us. Follow us for quality items and other assorted. The item “RARE NW Coast Haida Tlingit Native American Cedar Human Wolf Salmon Effigy Club” is in sale since Saturday, November 7, 2020. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Cultures & Ethnicities\Native American\ US\1800-1934\Other Nat. Am. Items 1800-1934″. The seller is “celestial_nonesuch” and is located in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. This item can be shipped worldwide.
C e l es ti a l N o n e s u ch. A gorgeous steatite stone carved human effigy pipe. This item came from a large collection of Native American art and artifacts, including Hopewell, Mississippian, Anasazi and more. A great object for study or display, this will make a nice addition to any student or appreciators collection of Native American art and artifacts. Exhibits extensive signs of age such as surface wear and weathering. As they are part of the description, please enlarge all photographs to better ascertain details and condition. The packing peanuts we use are recyclable: #6. Thank you for shopping with us. Follow us for quality items and other assorted. The item “RARE Pre-Historic Human Effigy Steatite Native American Great Pipe Stone Carved” is in sale since Saturday, October 3, 2020. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Cultures & Ethnicities\Native American\ US\Pre-1600\Pipes”. The seller is “celestial_nonesuch” and is located in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. This item can be shipped worldwide.
Ancient Art, Antiques, & Fine. Antique Native American Shamans. Raven Clan Effigy Burl Wood Mortar & Pestle. With Carved Pictographs Near the Center Bowl. Pacific Northwest Coast Native American. Suquamish Tribe/Puget Sound/Salish Sea. Collected on Bainbridge Island, WA. I certify that this antique Raven Mortar was reportedly found on private land on Bainbridge Island, WA, with the land owner’s permission in the 1800s. Held in a private collection in Seattle for over a century. Collection of any artifacts found on federal/state land or from caves, graves, or mounds is now strictly prohibited by federal law. NW Coast Suquamish Shamans Raven Effigy Mortar & Pestle. Material: Hand-carved, natural wooden burl branch. A burl is a natural, tree growth in which the grain and shape of the wooden trunk has grown in a deformed manner. Native Americans thought that these burls contained magical powers of healing. Find Location: Northwest Coast, USA, Bainbridge Island, WA, 19. Approximate Measurements of Wooden Mortar. 9.00 (22.5 cm). 4.00 (10.2 cm). 4.54 (11.5 cm). Weight: 1.75 lbs. Approximate Measurements of Small Stone Pestle. 2.27 (58 mm). This incredibly RARE Suquamish Shamans Wooden Mortar made from a wooden tree burl log that has the powerful Northwest Coast clan figure of a Raven carved into it. The Suquamish believed that animal figures like the Raven carved into objects made the bowl itself come alive with protective powers against evil spirits who were thought to dwell everywhere. The Trickster Raven was purposefully carved to protect and empower those who used this bowl from evil spirits. It is a very powerful and spiritual piece as it appears the Raven is in flight to carry the medicinal blessings to the sick or injured! This mortar would have been made, blessed, and used by only a single shaman for many years to make small batches of healing poultices for his patients. Native American from the NW coast thought that these burls contained living Spirits to help or harm humans and magical powers of healing. There are two (2) small pictographs (one is a 8.62 mm tall stick figure of a human–likely a depiction of the Shaman himself–and another figure that may be a Raven or other Spirit animal) carved into the top of the mortar between the Raven’s beak and the mortar’s bowl that measures about 1.34 or 34 mm in diameter! {You can see the small figures in macro photos 3-5}. Century mortar is rather crudely carved in style that was used among NW Coast tribes from about 17501850. And-carved mortar is made from a single wooden burl. While the small, stone pestle appears to be a water smoothed rock. NOTE: A burl is a natural, tree growth in which the grain and shape of the wooden trunk has grown in a deformed manner. Native Americans thought that these burls contained living Spirits and magical powers of healing and of protection. Very old examples of shaman paraphernalia are EXTREMELY RARE and only a few are known to exist in Native American museums and fine private collections. This fascinating, Shamans wooden mortar carved into the shape of The Trickster Raven came from a century old Pacific Northwestern collection of artifacts from the Puget Sound area on Bainbridge Island. The entire estate collection was obtained decades ago from the late Mrs. Henrietta Swansons relatives, whose family had early Seattle / island connections. Her descendants stated that the original collector had told Mrs. Swanson that their great grandfather acquired it in a trade on Bainbridge Island around the late 1890s. The style of carving and the patina of the wood suggests that it was made decades or perhaps a century before. This Raven Mortar effigy shows a closed-beak Raven at one end with a streamlined body as if in flight. The Raven mortar shows ware from ancient use by a tribal Shaman. The Raven was thought to scare away Evil Spirits and protect those around it. Minor dings, surface cracks, abrasion marks, grease/oil stains are consistent with age and heavy use over centuries. Deep chisel cuts are especially evident on the inside of the bowl. A very early and RARE wooden artifact from the pre-white settler indigenous population of the island/region. It is in Very Good to Excellent, Museum Quality condition and has a wonderful patina with no modern repairs or restorations. Museum quality with some loss of material to the Raven’s beak, minor cracks, abrasions, chips, and nicks that are consistent with age and ancient use. See macro photos for details. This incredible Suquamish hand-carved, mortar has the powerful clan figure of a Raven carved into it and two pictographs carved into the area around the center bowl. The Suquamish believed that animal figures like the Trickster Raven carved into objects made the mortar itself come alive with protective powers against evil spirits who were thought to dwell everywhere. The Raven was purposefully carved into the mortar to show the Raven protecting and empowering those who used this bowl to heal the ill and protect them from evil spirits and harm. It is a very powerful and spiritual piece that is museum quality! A Suquamish Shaman laboriously worked the large, native cedar burl into the elegant shape of a Raven into this incredible mortar. Totemic design of a Ravens head was carved into one end. This large burl is oblong shaped and very thick and robustly carved. Shaman in the Pacific NW were thought to communicate mystically and directly with he world of Spirits. This wooden mortar would have been made and blessed by a single shaman-priest and used throughout his lifetime. A Shamans artwork was his personal property and his regalia was potent and dangerous to others. Shaman were often transformed into spiritual animal helpers. Upon the death of a Shaman, his body and all his paraphernalia were buried far from the village as both he and his regalia remained highly potent and dangerous. Pacific NW Shaman were often buried in elevated grave houses and guarded by fierce grave figures. This mortar, with its small, circular bowl and relatively small pestle, would have been used for tiny batches of materialperhaps for making shamanistic poultices for healing/ritual ceremonies. Its small size rules out any food preparation useit is too tiny. The roughly hewed wood suggests this bowl was executed in a very early style, indicating a date of origin that could span from circa 1800 to well back into the eighteenth century. The broad, thick form-lines and deep, carved-out bowl are typical of objects that are documented to the last quarter of the eighteenth century, and many of those were undoubtedly created well before their documented date of collection by Euro-Americansin this case in the late 1800s. This archaic-style design work is usually attributed primarily to the Tlingit or Suquamish, and it’s very likely that this group was the original source of the bowl. However, in the very early historic period, northern Northwest Coast design styles had much more in common than they did in the mid-nineteenth century, after many decades of artistic evolution. Numerous examples of archaic-style objects collected from the Tlingit, Haida, and Suquamish exist to indicate that this style was common in their area in the early years of the contact period. The form-line designs on this bowl appear to represent the head of the eagle on the upper-beak end and the tail feathers and handle on the other end. This dual-representation or punning style of imagery is very common in the Northwest Coast tradition. The bowl is believed to be carved from Sitka spruce, a common forest tree on the northern Northwest Coast, but one that is almost never mentioned in the ethnographic literature as a carving material. Once one learns to recognize the appearance of this wood, however, it becomes apparent that there are a great many carved objects, many of them very early examples, that were carved of this material in the historic period. It was commonly used for bowls in the early contact period and before, as well as for war helmets, canoe paddles, and such works as combs and other small objects. Northwest Native American Raven Mythology. The Raven is a culture hero of the Northwest Coast and Alaskan Athabaskan tribes. He is a revered and benevolent transformer god who helps the people and shapes their world for them, but at the same time, he is also a trickster character and many Raven stories have to do with his frivolous or poorly thought out behavior getting him into trouble. In the mythology of many Northwest Indian tribes, Raven is honored as a culture hero. He is a revered and benevolent transformer figure who helps the people and shapes their world for them, but at the same time, he is also a trickster character and many Raven stories have to do with his frivolous or poorly thought out behavior causing trouble for him and the people around him. Raven is noted for negative traits such as gluttony, greed, and impatience as well as for his heroism and great deeds. Ravens are also used as clan animals in many Native American cultures, particularly those of the Northwest Coast (such as the Haida, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Nisgaa-Gitksan, and Salishan tribes) and the northern Athabaskan tribes such as the Tanaina. Raven is an important clan crest on the Northwest Coast and can often be found carved on totem poles, bentwood boxes, and other traditional northwestern art. In fact, the Haida tribe credits Raven for discovering the first humans who were hiding in a clam shell; he brought them berries and salmon. The Suquamish are a Lushootseed-speaking Native American people, located in present-day Washington in the United States. They are a southern Coast Salish people. Today, most Suquamish people are enrolled in the Suquamish Tribe, an indigenous nation and signatory to the Treaty of Point Elliott of 1855. The Suquamish traditionally lived on the western shores of Puget Sound, from Apple Tree Cove in the north to Gig Harbor in the south, including Bainbridge Island and Blake Island. They had villages throughout the region, the largest centered on Old Man House, the largest winter longhouse in the Salish Sea. Chief Seattle was an ancestral leader of the Suquamish Tribe who was born in 1786 at the Old-Man-House village in Suquamish. His father was Schweabe, a Suquamish Chief, and his was mother Scholitza, a Duwamish from a village near present Kent. Seattle was a six years old when Captain George Vancouver anchored in Suquamish waters off Bainbridge Island in 1792. The first contact between Suquamish and European peoples came in 1792 when George Vancouver explored Puget Sound and met members of the Suquamish Tribe, possibly including Schweabe and Kitsap. More regular contact with non-Natives came with the establishment of British trading posts in Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia in the early 19th century England. Once the Washington Territory was established in 1853, the U. Government began signing treaties with area indigenous leaders to extinguish aboriginal claims and make land available for non-Native settlement. They reserved for themselves the land that became designated as the Port Madison Indian Reservation, near their winter village on Agate Pass. They also reserved the right to fish and harvest shellfish in their Usual and Accustomed Areas, and reserved certain cultural and natural resource rights within their historical territory. Today, the Suquamish Tribe is a co-manager with the State of Washington of the state’s salmon fishery. This is your chance to add an extremely RARE Shaman Burl Wood Raven Mortar to your collection! PROVENANCE: Chronology of Ownership. This authentic, Raven Effigy Mortar is from the estate of a prominent collector who lived in Bainbridge, Island, WA. I recently acquired it from a private collector in Colorado. This bowl will be accompanied by an ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS Certificate of Authenticity at no additional charge. By the Editors of Time Life, 1992, pgs. Spirit Faces: Contemporary Masks of the Northwest Coast. By Gary Wyatt, 1998. The Coppers of the Northwest Coast Indians: Their Origin. Volume 79, Carol F. Understanding Northwest Coast Art: A Guide to Crests, Beings and Symbols. Each object I sell is professionally researched and compared with similar objects in the collections of the finest museums in the world. When in doubt, I have worked with dozens of subject matter experts to determine the condition and authenticity of numerous antiquities and antiques. All sales are Final, unless I have seriously misrepresented this item! Member of the Authentic Artifact Collectors Association (AACA) & the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). The item “X-RARE Northwest Coast RAVEN Effigy Burl Wood Mortar & Pestle! 1800s Suquamish WA” is in sale since Friday, April 5, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Cultures & Ethnicities\Native American\ US\1800-1934\Other Nat. Am. Items 1800-1934″. The seller is “houghton-usa” and is located in Sequim, Washington. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom.
Ancient Art, Antiques, & Fine. Ancient Native American Shaman’s Stone Pipe. Ceremonial or Shamans Effigy Pipe. Found Near Fort Ancient, Ohio. If one truly understands the Medicine Pipe, then one comprehends the infinite Universe. For all is reflected in the Pipe. I certify that this ancient artifact was legally collected on private land with the owner’s permission in Ohio during the late 1800s and has been in private collections since that time. It was a surface find and no caves, graves, or mounds were disturbed. This is an opportunity to legally own a stunning, ancient Native American pipe that is estimated to be at least 250-years-old. Item: Ancient Native American Shamans Stone Pipe. Height: 2.02 (51 mm). 2.22 (57 mm). Weight: 13.7 oz. 78 (19.8 mm). 29 (7.3 mm). Condition: This ancient Native American pipe is in as found condition. It has multiple dings, abrasion scars, some nicks and a black substance that appears to be tar, no doubt from sap that has come from burning a pine tree, is present along the top side of this intriguing pipe. It is in museum quality condition with no repairs or restorations. In the late 19. Century, this astonishing human effigy pipe was recovered on the surface of private land near the Fort Ancient area of Ohio. Until I added it to my collection in 2018, it had been in a private collection in Boulder, Colorado, for over 20 years. Based upon this pipes find location, it appears likely it was made by a Fort Ancient shaman approximately 250 to 1,000 years-ago! The Fort Ancient culture was once thought to have been an expansion of the Mississippian cultures. It is now accepted as an independently developed culture that descended from the Hopewell culture (100 BCE500 CE). The Fort Ancient Culture’s most famous mound is called the serpent mound. Its huge size suggests this stone pipe was likely used for tribal ceremonies by a shaman holy man, who would fill the bowl with special herbs and tobacco that would produce a strong narcotic effect useful as an aid in attaining stance states through which the ancestor Spirits and Sun God could be reached. Shamanism in North America by Norman Bancroft Hunt, pg. Unlike modern smokers, there was little recreational use of tobacco by ancient Native Americans. Instead, pipes like this one were used only for ceremonial and ritual purposes. A hollow reed would have been inserted into the hole at the base of the bowl. Effigy pipes depicting various animals were common in the Fort Ancient area, but human effigy pipes made by shaman are extremely RARE and highly collectible! They would only have been made and used by one shaman and then cremated, killed by breaking in two, or buried with the shaman upon his death. The very large, ancient pipe is shaped and carved from sandstone and shows a human face on the outward side of the smoke bowl. This image is thought to be that of a shaman/medicine man that is speaking to the spirits. It would have been made and used by a shaman during his spirit journeys to the astro-plane. This pipe would have been part of the shamans paraphernalia that he regularly used in his spirit quests. The significance Fort Ancient has to this region is so great, that the site could soon become a World Heritage Site joining the likes of only 23 other World Heritage Sites in the U. Including Yosemite National Park. This pipe was uncovered in a field just north of the Fort Ancient hilltop complex and south of the small community of Oregonia that is located in southwest Ohio. Oregonia is an unincorporated community in northwestern Washington Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States, on the east shore of the Little Miami River, about five miles northeast of Lebanon and six miles south of Waynesville. Fort Ancient is a giant, hilltop enclosure in Warren County Ohio between Dayton and Cincinnati, in the woods along the Little Miami River; it is a remarkable, complex series of low-rise earthworks that were constructed by hand more than 2,000 ago. They are one of the largest remaining structures left by prehistoric Native Americans anywhere in the country. They were built by people who probably used deer bones, stones and wooden tools to scrape earth into wicker baskets, which they dumped and stacked and shaped to form three and a half miles of walls that enclosed 126 acres on a plateau overlooking the river. Some of the walls were 50 feet wide, and up to 23 feet high. As many as 67 breaks in the walls are now known as “gateways, ” which can still be seen. Some 553,000 estimated cubic yards of earth that make up the site were moved into place. All photos taken indoors; and the stand, the dried moss in the pipe, and the ruler are not part of the sale, just there so you can better judge the size. Each object I sell is professionally researched and compared with similar objects in the collections of the finest museums in the world. When in doubt, I have worked with dozens of subject matter experts to determine the condition and authenticity of numerous antiquities and antiques. All sales are Final, unless I have seriously misrepresented this item! Please look at the macro photos carefully as they are part of the description. Member of the Authentic Artifact Collectors Association (AACA) & the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). The item “RARE Ancient Native American Shaman’s Stone Human Effigy Pipe! Fort Ancient, Ohio” is in sale since Wednesday, March 27, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Cultures & Ethnicities\Native American\ US\Pre-1600\Pipes”. The seller is “houghton-usa” and is located in Sequim, Washington. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom.
RARE Native American Indian Large Stone Human Effigy found PA. At offer is a what I believe to be a one of a kind and RARE Native American Indian Carved Stone Effigy that was found in PA. It has one are of very nice ancient encretion that I show in the photos. One side is quite flat and the other, I assume the front, is curved. This is just one of many nice Stone Artifacts I obtained from the estate of the collector who found them. I will be listing more of the items in the photo below which was only a small part of the collection. ONLE 1 PIECE IS FOR SALE IN THIS LISTING… Se look closely at all the photos as they are an important part of the description and your are purchasing what is pictured. The actual color may vary due to lighting and/or flash. Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing. Auctiva gets you noticed! Track Page Views With. Auctiva’s FREE Counter. The item “RARE Native American Indian Large Stone Human Effigy found PA” is in sale since Tuesday, August 13, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Cultures & Ethnicities\Native American\ US\Pre-1600\Artifacts”. The seller is “zillionsofthings” and is located in Cordova, Tennessee. This item can be shipped to United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Panama, Jamaica, Bangladesh, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Paraguay, Uruguay, South africa, Colombia, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman islands, Sri lanka, Maldives, Oman, Reunion.
RARE 10 ceremonial artifact FACE EFFIGY NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN ARTIFACT MUSEUM QUALITY LOT Condition is Used. This rare and amazing artifact is from a collection of Artifacts recovered from a long ago huge ancient old indian trading camp in willamette valley, oregon. I’ve been a serious and devoted collector of rocks & artifacts for over 40 years now… Wow how time flies. I have come to learn over the years that not everyone, including my children, share the same passion for artifact collecting as i do. Lol lots of fun times. Since I’m fighting cancer right now I have decided its time for me to let go and share some of my artifacts with other collectors who are just as passionate about artifacts. I hope the pieces won will bring as much joy to you as they did for me over the years. Remember life is precious and short so be Kind to yourself and be kind to others. I hope you all have a great day. The item “ANCIENT CEREMONIAL ARTIFACTS RARE 10 FACE EFFIGY NATIVE AMERICAN PICTURE ROCK” is in sale since Thursday, November 28, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Cultures & Ethnicities\Native American\ US\Pre-1600\Artifacts”. The seller is “sanwa-874″ and is located in Springfield, Oregon. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, South africa, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Panama, Jamaica, Cayman islands, Luxembourg, Viet nam, Uruguay.
Ancient Art, Antiques, & Fine. RARE Native American Tube Style Stone Medicine Pipe. Ancient Copperhead Snake Effigy Pipe with Engraved Petroglyphs. Found Near Peachtree Mound in Murphy, North Carolina. If one truly understands the Medicine Pipe, then one comprehends the infinite Universe. For all is reflected in the Pipe. I certify that this ancient artifact was legally collected on private land with the owner’s permission near Murphy, North Carolina, during the late 1800s and has been in private collections since that time. It was a surface find and no caves, graves, or mounds were disturbed. This is an opportunity to legally own a stunning, ancient Native American pipe that is estimated to be at least 500-years-old and perhaps as old as 1,500-years-old. Item: Native American Copperhead Shaped, Tube Style Pipe. Find Location: Near Peachtree Mound, Murphy, North Carolina. Yuchi or Koasati People. Material: Carved & Drilled hard stone with petroglyphs. Length: 2.8 (73 mm). Width: 1.87 (48 mm). Weight: 1.9 oz. 11 (2.85 mm). Condition: Very good, museum quality with no repairs or restorations. This astonishingly beautiful yet compact medicine pipe is shaped like the head of a copperhead snakeas viewed from above. It has multiple soil abrasion scratches, some tiny dings. Providence/History: This stone pipe has a nice, authentic patina and was part of a larger, local family collection from near Murphy, North Carolina, for most of the 1900s. It is Guaranteed original and authentic. This remarkable and perhaps unique stone pipe shaped like the flared head of a Copperhead Snake came out of an early ceremonial mound called Peachtree Mound that is located near the town of Murphy, in southwestern North Carolina. This modified, tube style pipe in the shape of a Copperhead Snakes head measures 2.8 (73 mm) in length and is in very good, museum quality condition. It has several, small petroglyphs on the sides of the round pipe and on the protruding flared wings. It is made of a well-polished, high grade black stonea rarity in itselfthat is made even more unique because of the engraving. I have noticed that Shaman from various North American tribes often made their paraphernalia from black stones that may have held special powers for them. The inside of the bowl is adorned with vertical lines carved into the sides that are typical of pipes made to worship the Great Spirit; for as the smoke rose from the pipe, it carried the prayers of the tribe to the Great Spirit in the heavens. The copperhead snake has long been revered and worshipped by the Yuchi and the Koasati People of North Carolina. The copperheads ability to cast their skins, kill with their bite, and their ability to drive away evil spirits and heal the sick are well known. Shaman were able to maintain close spiritual links between themselves and the copperheads. The Shamans combination of this Copperhead effigy pipe and the power of smoke to heal were powerful tools in his paraphernalia to heal the sick with the help of the Spirit realm. Dreaming of the Snake, which is a power of the Earth, automatically included the Spirits of other animals that were essential in the curing right of the Shamans. Furthermore, each Shaman was believed to carry within him a number of Spirit Animalsmost commonly in the form of lizards and snakeswhich directed and guided his judgements. Decisions were made on the basis of advice supposedly received from such supernatural animal helpers. In addition, every Shaman boasted specific skills in the curing of certain types of illnesses and wore appropriate insignia to proclaim this fact to his tribe. Shaman who could treat snake bite often wore a fox skin, while an owl feather was the badge of a shaman capable of trailing an enemy at night. The Shaman/Medicine Man/Priest also believed that their appeals to the Spirits should be made to those forces that were responsible for causing harm or illness in the first place, since those forces would have the power to undo it. Therefore, it was not unusual for Snake to be invoked in cases of illness that were attributable to snakebite. Shaman/Priests were also thought to be able to use their powers to conduct rituals associated with Snakes to bring rain and fertility, as well as cure paralysis that was thought to be caused by Lightning, the messenger of Snake. Snake was thought to control other elements or Spirits over which the Snakes were believed to exercise control. The sacred mounds in southwestern North Carolina were first documented in 1567 by the Spanish explorer Capitan Juan Pardos chronicler, Licenciado Juan de la Bandera, who wrote about the tribes who inhabited this area during their 16. But it wasnt until the early 1900s, when one of the main burial mounds in that area was largely destroyed first by archeologists and then later digging by farmers who picked up these artifacts while tilling their fields and plowing over the mounds. With many of the mounds destroyed, very little is currently known about the multicultural site of Peachtree Mound, which probably was occupied in succession by Yuchi, the ancestors of the Koasati People, the Kusa branch of the Creeks, Apalachee from northern Florida and a member town of the Cherokee Alliance. Along with the Great Spirit who created the Earth and Man, these early tribes in North Carolina worshiped the copperhead snake. In fact, Hiwassee is a Koasati or Highland Hitchiti word, which can either be translated as copperhead snake, small pit viper, or children of the pit viper. Cherokee oral tradition remembers that when they first entered this region, it was occupied by Muskogean who worshiped a serpent idol with ruby eyes, built large mounds, and lived in rectangular houses. Their neighbors and allies, the Yuchi , lived in round houses in round villages. The English called the Carolina Mountain Yuchi , the Roundtown People. The Peachtree Mound is a little-known, ancient Native American village site in the North Carolina Mountains that is near to the current town of Murphy, NC. This is near where this copperhead pipe was recovered in the late 1800s. According to experts, settlement at the convergence of the Peachtree Creek and the Hiwassee River in Cherokee County dates to the Archaic period 8000 to 1000 B. , with ongoing occupation continuing until historic times. Unfortunately, an unscientific exploration of the village site and mound in 1885 resulted in the removal of significant archeological material. The Peachtree Site had one of the few Hierarchal Period mounds in the North Carolina Mountains that has been excavated by professional archaeologists. In 1933, however, the Smithsonian Institution conducted a more careful excavation of the site, which investigators concluded was the ancient Cherokee village of Guasili. Numerous recorders of Hernando De Soto’s gold expedition to the area in 1540 mention Guasili, where they report they were graciously received and entertained. The Smithsonian team found nearly 250,000 pieces of pottery at the Peachtree Village site and discovered 68 burial sites, some enclosed in stone-lined graves. Indians built earthen mounds that were often used as burial sites. The Peachtree Mound, according to the Smithsonian report, was a multilevel ceremonial structure. At the base, a hard-packed floor was the foundation for a wood and stone building, covered by an earthen mound about 60 feet in diameter. A sand stratum separated the first mound from a larger mound which was built later and appeared to have undergone at least two major periods of construction. Evidence of superimposed floors indicated that the second mound supported three separate ceremonial structures. Earthen mounds like this are scattered all over the valley floors of the Blue Ridge Smoky Mountains all the way through the Mississippi River Valley regions, and they come in various sizes. The Kituwah village mound located just east of Bryson City in Swain County, North Carolina, some believe it to be 10,000 years old or possibly older. The Cherokee people call the area Kituwah “the mother town, ” site of their origins as a native people. Unfortunately, this work was done in an era when neither precise aerial photography nor radiocarbon dating was possible. Also, archaeologists of this era were primarily interested in obtaining trophy artifacts for their museum and benefactors in the Northeast, so little attention was given to the Native American village as a whole or its chronology. What archaeologists did find here at this site was a low and ancient man-made mound they believe dates to the Archaic period 8000 to 1000 B. So important was this find, that in 1933 a research team from the Smithsonian worked the dig uncovering nearly 250,000 pieces of pottery along with 68 burial sites enclosed in stone-lined graves. Early Native American’s constructed earth mounds for either burial or ceremonial purpose, the Smithsonian report concluded that this mound was a multi-level ceremonial structure. Some evidence at the site was inconclusive due to damage from an earlier dig in 1885, possibly treasure hunters or Indiana Jones amateurs. Sadly, most of the mounds were partially destroyed during the early 20. Century and farmers damaged what remained after the archaeologists left. However, the footprint of many of the ceremonial and burial mounds are still visible on color overhead satellite images or those taken in infrared. The Peachtree Mound is on private property not a public site. The natives in late prehistoric and early historic North America made and used many kinds of instruments for smoking diverse types of plant material, including hallucinogenic botanicals. Some groups and some villages seem to have produced larger quantities and more complex varieties of pipes than others with the current thoughts being that these particular bands of aborigines were more spiritual and ritualistically inclined. It is difficult to separate the pious and pompous existences that were so closely intertwined in the daily lives of these endemic ancient cultures, so today we generally just call them religious/ceremonial societies. We do know, according to the reports from 16. Century European visitors, that these indigenous people did indeed use and smoke native tobacco as well as many other medicinal/herbal/addictive and mind-altering plants such as salvia, passionflower, morning glory and, of course, flowers and leaves of the hemp plant, or as we normally call it today cannabis or marijuana. In the area that is now North Carolina, a venerable settlement of these ethnic folk did make many smoking implements in order to inhale the vaporous fumes from almost countless plants smoking implements such as this unusual square stem collared pipe. Ancient Native American rock art is divided into two basic categories: petroglyphs and pictographs. Both originally had some symbolic meaning, but as these early Native American people had no written language, so the symbols are more of a pictographic nature. Petroglyphs are carved (hammered, pecked, abraded, incised, or scratched) into the stone object and also include cupules (pits), scratches and grooves, like those seen on the flared sides of this pipe. On one sides of the pipe, there are several tiny petroglyphs that have been percussively pounded into the stone! It is Extremely RARE to find petroglyphs in ancient Native American pipes. With macro photos taken in direct sunlight and indoors, I hope you can faintly see images in the blackened stone; although, they are best viewed in person and under low magnification. Perhaps the most noticeable of the petroglyphs are the hour-glass shaped marks on the underside of the pipe that appear to resemble the markings on a copperhead snake! There are very faint incised marks made by a human hand that remain a mystery. These petroglyphs were likely made by the Yuchi shaman who made this sacred pipe and used it to communicate with the Great Spirit and other idols like the Copperhead Snake. It may have been used to with special herbs that were used by the shaman in healing or in communicating with the spirits. As images of human and animal figures are often found in shaman paraphernalia that is used by the shaman to communicate with the spirits in the astroplane during his/her trances. Each pipe maker captured his unique thoughts in his creation, and those making an effigy representation fashioned an image of a living beingone they very much admired and respected, as it could take hundreds of hours to fashion their work. Unknowingly, they gifted those creature representations to us, millenniums later, for study and admiration. In this writer’s humble estimation, these stone effigies are some of the premier artforms that prehistoric peoples gave us. Cherokee County Historical Museum. Norman Bancroft Hunt, Shamanism in North America, 2002. All photos taken indoors; and the stand, the dried moss in the pipe, and the ruler are not part of the sale, just there so you can better judge the size. Each object I sell is professionally researched and compared with similar objects in the collections of the finest museums in the world. When in doubt, I have worked with dozens of subject matter experts to determine the condition and authenticity of numerous antiquities and antiques. All sales are Final, unless I have seriously misrepresented this item! Please look at the macro photos carefully as they are part of the description. Member of the Authentic Artifact Collectors Association (AACA) & the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). The item “RARE Ancient Native American Shaman’s Copperhead Snake Effigy Pipe withPetroglyphs” is in sale since Friday, March 29, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Cultures & Ethnicities\Native American\ US\Pre-1600\Pipes”. The seller is “houghton-usa” and is located in Sequim, Washington. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Australia.
Find Location: North Carolina
Modified Item: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Artisan: Unknown Shaman
Provenance: Ownership History Available
Origin: Near Peachtree Mound, Murphy, North Carolina
My dear friend is in a financial crisis with his medical bills so unfortunately he must sell a few artifacts from his collection. If they sell good i will continue posting at his request. Please take a minute to look through the pictures and feel free to ask questions thank you! Native American Double Effigy Pipe RARE found in Virginia. The item “Native American Double Effigy Pipe RARE found in Virginia” is in sale since Thursday, July 25, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Cultures & Ethnicities\Native American\ US\Pre-1600\Artifacts”. The seller is “isstep_56″ and is located in Jackson, Ohio. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, South africa, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Cayman islands, Luxembourg, Uruguay, Russian federation, Dominican republic, El salvador.
