14000 Years in the Ozarks - Arrowhead Collecting On The Web

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Arrowhead Collecting On The Web
The Lee Family Project: To Build A Comprehensive Missouri
Regional Type Collection & The Inspiration For This Timeline.
· Over 25 years of hunting and
collecting
· All arrowheads with pink labels
are personal finds
· A majority of the arrowheads
were found within the last 20
years
· A wide variety of Missouri
lithics exhibiting fantastic color
Importance of the Timeline
Our timeline display was inspired
by a trip to the Smithsonian -
National Museum of the American
Indian (NMAI). And we don’t
mean this in a good way. The
nicest things we can say about this
museum is “the architecture of the
building is attractive and the
cafeteria food was delicious”.
Unfortunately, the prehistoric
content was limited and the
historic items were questionable.
Avonlea Arrowhead
RelicShack.com Item #: 15177. Type: Avonlea.
Price: $200.00. Dimensions: 2-1/8" long.
Found: Southern Nebraska.
Era: Late Prehistoric (200 - 800 AD).
Description: Very nice, classic, river polish.
Found on the high plains.
The museum contained a single
wall of projectile points. We were
expecting a larger quantity but the
major disappointment came from
the display. It is hard to believe
that any Smithsonian Archaeologist
would allow the points to
be displayed as schools of fish!
Overall, the museum exhibited
more skateboards than axes, celts,
discoidals, boat stones, plummets,
pipes and spades combined. We
questioned the Information Desk
and was told that the NMAI is
more of a cultural museum than a
historical museum.
The museum experience wasn’t a
total loss, it reinforced a very
important point.
We must keep our legal rights to
collect artifacts and preserve our
history. Archaeological Society’s are
constantly battling this issue for
us. Leaving history preservation
to only museum committees and
government bureaucrats risks
interpretations based on politics
and special interests.
It is inexcusable to represent our
Native American culture, history,
and heritage with European
products or a pair of beaded
Converse shoes while neglecting
thousands of years pre-1492.
As a result, our family created this
timeline to supplement the
missing 13,500 years ignored by
the Smithsonian - National
Museum of the American Indian.
Notes:
· Our collection is being built
using less than the
$759,000,000.00 of tax money
given each year to the
Smithsonian.
(...continues on p. 7)
Volume II, Number 5 6
May 2010