I'm making my way up to oregon this next month and i was woundering if anyone knows what the mounds look like up there. Limestone? Snails? My brother already sent me some pictures of fish tailed obsidian points that he found so i'm real excited! Please help

We missed out on Orgegon last year, but did find some nice agate birds on the Priest River in Idaho. If you have any luck, please post your finds. Might get out that way next year.

These are the agate points we found on the Priest river in Idaho, plus a couple from Montana.


Good friend of ours from Cal. went to the Klamath Falls Museum and snuck a couple of quick pic's of some of the points. Man, if that's the kind they find in Oregon, think we might ride with you.

Wow, Trust Te to put on a super show but thats just what I would expect of the NW points.
The working materials they have is practiclly all Gem quality minerals & agates !.
I'm sure I read years ago that WA state banned any digging, OR probably is the same. Because of the weather conditions up that way some shelters were partially dug in the ground. Easy to be easily hidden by thousands of years of aluvial soils.

I camped on the Columbia in '04 and the park rangers were still complaining about all the lingering
Mt St Helens ash fall. Like surface hunting in the snow.

great pics tehuacana. i would love to add some north west points to my collection.

I know what you mean. That buddy took several pictures will he was in the museum, he said he wished he could have taken more, but they kinda frown on people snapping pic's, so he didn't get to take as many as he wanted. Sure like to find some made out of that rainbow obsidian. I saw it on Discovery channel here a while back. Awesome knapping material. Next time we're back up that way I'll see if I can pick up some. Bet there's a couple of knappers on this site that would make me a finished point out of it, in trade for several chunks of it.

Pulled this off the internet, the Discovery Channel show had one of the local native Americans make a point out of this stuff, using the same tools his ancestors used. Rainbow Obsidian.

I was just looking closer at the second pic down with that large variety of bird points. Beautiful but
what were some of them actually used for ? The ones with the wildly excessive barbs would seem impossible
to do the windings needed to haft. And some other varieties have great barbs and almost no proper mounting bases !
Maybe they just took pleasure in creating something beautiful but useless. [ Sort of like a modern woodworking hobbyist that creates a genuine wooden fruit bowl with only 4000 dollars worth of tools and
6000 dollars of hand labor !]

Modern knapers are always looking for unique materials, wonder if they ever check the dumpsters at custom glass production factories ?
The front color pages of the Overstreet book features a number of obsidion varieties, including the subject matter of Oregon. [ Might depend on what issue your looking at ]

No idea, Hal. He sent several pictures that he took in the museum, these were two of the best. I believe, without looking them up, Rogue River was a similar point in that region.