Iowa’s Monarch caterpillars are munching their way to metamorphosis. Picture taken last week. Hardin County.11mo ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/Iowa
A tree that almost killed a guy who parked his tractor and got out to work on a fence. The tractor with scoop elevated, rolled into him. The scoop blade pinned him against this Honey Locust, impaling him in numerous places. He released the hydraulics with a branch he broke off. Hardin County, Iowa.1yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/oddlyterrifying
Here’s my Uncle Richard’s photo of the last three survivors of Custer’s Last Stand, the Sioux scouts. Custer, a brilliant military field commander was beaten with gorilla warfare, the use of the plateau that hid the size of the enemy force. He also was out flanked and had inferior weapons.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/IndianCountry
I wore this mask to a Halloween party last year and over heard several people said that it was the scariest mask they had ever seen. I thought it was just a cool natural nature mask until I heard that. I checked myself out in the mirror and it is oddly terrifying.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/oddlyterrifying
One of Richard Throssel’s most famous Crow Nation portraits, Chief Long Otter, 1905. His ability to capture the essence of the person or the ceremony was second to none. He also created extremely high quality photographs that have withstood the test of time with minimal yellowing.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/IndianCountry
Don’t give up on your broken pieces. This one was a heartbreaker but I found the missing piece two years later. I have two big ziplock plastic bags of pieces that I try to match up every couple of years. This Archaic, side notched, stemmed point was found in Central Iowa.1yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/Arrowheads
Sometimes the most interesting thing you find on an outing isn’t a finished piece. I was hiking near Castle Rock, Colorado and found this beautiful little pile of chert flakes. Time had been kind to this stone alcove and the pieces appear to be right where they dropped a thousand years ago.10mo ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/Arrowheads
Tube pipe, smoke blower, found in Hardin County, Iowa private property. It was lying sideways and filled with sand and dirt, in a ravine that has an amphitheater where several dry washes converge. A natural secluded meeting place.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/Arrowheads
Is Willie Nelson a true Cherokee or Lakota? I have carried this folklore or truth in my head and heart for many years.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/IndianCountry
My first silver! Two years of searching in Central Iowa and today I turned over a piece of sod with a bright in stained silver quarter in it. I was in awe. The medallion is a skull with goggles, crossbones and four foot prints. Anyone know what it’s origins are?2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/metaldetecting
A repaired Clovis Paleo Era dart point. I used Loctite white caulking glue to fill in the profile for display. My repairs are intentionally obvious but not at a glance. It was an impact fracture that split a thin piece off the right edge. North Central Iowa find. To nice to discard as broken.2wk ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/Arrowheads
A terrifying killing machine. A mixed breed wild boar gone feral that has taken over much of the Northern half of the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri. The state has issued very cheap permits and is trying to get hunters, like me, to thin out their numbers. They do a lot of damage.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/oddlyterrifying
An oddball dart point from North Central Iowa. It was sticking straight up out of the cultivated field after a recent rain. I’m thinking it’s a converted or resharpened Agate Basin or a Nebo Hill. Any thoughts on it by you guys? I know I run the tough ones on here a lot. Thanks in advance.1mo ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/Arrowheads
A Maryland Sea Biscuit. It was dredged up out of the bay near the Solomon Islands. There are a sand dollar that fills up with sediment and fossilizes making a chubby biscuit out of what normally is a flat beach find. The biscuits are so heavy they almost never wash ashore. I was lucky to find it.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/FossilHunting
Found in North Central Iowa. It was in three pieces and I assembled it, Bondo replaced the rusted out holes, painted it with Rustoleum in its original colors. The mfg name, model and date are still visible. It’s a Delta Powerlite swing lantern, 1881. On the right is the 1927 model, purchased.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/metaldetecting
Burlington Chert Axe that I did a ceremonial dance over when I saw it on our Iowa river bottom sandbar. Two little beads, kind of cute and a really nice stemmed Archaic dart point?? with a heat treated tip. The sandbar is opposite a Buffalo jump and yields bones and artifacts.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/Arrowheads
Three arrowheads, well two anyway. The big one I the middle has a Gastropod fossil faintly visible. All you can do is wonder and imagine about that one. The other two are pretty uncommon up here in Hardin County, Iowa. Anyone have an idea on their origins. We are 220 miles from Cahokia.11mo ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/Arrowheads
A heart stopper......this Paleo dart point could penetrate. It was the .45-.70 cal of its day. A Columbian Mammoth and its thick hide was doable. Iowa River Valley in North Central Iowa, farm field.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/Arrowheads
Four different media’s for hafting. Iowa found points and blades. Hemp twine lashing. Hollow bone fresh, solid bone aged several years, wood and antler. Antler was the strongest, hollow bone, very pretty but fragile and wood that I decorated with blood, coal tar and beet juice dyes.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/Arrowheads
This hawk grabbed a sparrow from my front yard privet hedge. I live 70 miles south of the Minnesota border in Iowa. I usually have a local kestrel that hunts my yard and bird feeder, so this guy was surprising. He hit the sparrow then worked his way through the hedge, then devoured it.6mo ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/whatbirdisthis
The Iowa fossil is there for perspective. Seriously though, this appears to be a woody plant with what looks like exterior annual growth rings. The growth rings and the curved, rather sudden diameter reduction are interesting. I don’t have it identified. It came from an area of surface coal veins.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/FossilHunting
I found this hard stone, quartzite infused limestone, blade. Obviously a side notch and has a Snyder base look but the blade is thin and pointy. North Central Iowa, the Iowa River. Anybody know what type it is?6mo ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/Arrowheads
Found this three weeks ago. I looked it up in Lar Hothem’s, Artifacts of the Midwest written in 1974. He shows three of them and calls them interesting and attractive but apparently they were not a classified type that he was familiar with. To me it looks like a Pisker Blade. Anyone?3yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/Arrowheads
The base and lower 18” of an Elk antler found in a flowing stream in Hardin County, Iowa. It appears to be a two handled saw. I am kind of stunned. The flaked edge is really a series of gouges made by the same instrument and there’s no rodent nibbles anywhere else. The last Elk was killed in 1888.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/Arrowheads
A carved hard stone human head effigy with distinctive eyes and a prominent nose and chin, found in riverbed cobble, following a flood in Colorado in 2017 [1024 x 768]. (OC)3yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
A bollo tie that I designed using a circular Archaic knife with a nice yellow river polish and patina. I found the artifact in Hardin County, Iowa and took it to a jeweler. He had never made a bollo tie before and I wanted to show the old and the new. The silver pipes represent industry. I love it!3yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/jewelrymaking
This toy made me wonder if the treasure was packed in barrels & padded with rope to keep them from bursting. Then using a real version of this toy, simply rolled the barrels down the chutes to the bottom. The guy holding the barrels back may have slipped and been crushed, leaving only his bones.1mo ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/OakIsland
Hardin County’s Sitting Lady Sculpture has been a source of interest for many years. It’s limestone origins are Prehistoric Native American and in this photo a Douser is examining it. It’s on display on private property one mile north and one mile east of Owasa, Iowa. (OS) (1024 X 768)3yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Every now and then you find a rock that goes right to your heart. I found this hematite cross on a sandbar mixed in a pile of cobble from erosion. Central Iowa.2yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/rockhounds
Beach and dredge pile finds. North Englewood, Florida, yep ground zero for Ian. The top row are beach finds. Is the third one from the right petrified shark poop? Are the black fossils rib bones? (Flat and curved.) The tooth on the bottom left is broken and came from a dredge pile. Is it a Meg?1yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/fossilid
I find a lot of geodes in this area of Central Iowa, but this one is a crystal horse of a different color! What can anyone tell me about this beauty?1yr ⋅ NineNineNine-9999 ⋅ r/rockhounds