Exploring The Native American History Museum.

Hey folks, Wausau EIT. So here we are at the Native American Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. We're just outside, just getting ready to get started here. Pretty excited about this, so come on along with us. I also noticed something else is right outside here they have an arrowhead hunt. I'll flip you around here and show you this. For kids and adults, I guess kids under 15 can collect all they want. They can collect one, I think, and then anything over that is 50 cents an arrowhead or something like that. So they've got a fun thing here for the kids also. I'll flip you around here and show you, and it's a whole bunch of flint they've hauled in here. It's pretty cool. Okay, so here's a sign right here, and dig at your own risk. But anyways, they've got this, this is all flint here, and I guess there's arrowheads in it. And the kids can come around and go through this and look for arrowheads. I don't know how many is in there or not, but anyways, a bunch of flint. If you don't find an arrowhead, I guess you can make your own. But, pretty cool. We're fixing the head inside. Okay, so I was just kicking around here, playing around with the kids to grab a little over and look what I found. I found an arrowhead. These are planted here obviously, you know, but still pretty cool for the kids to find and stuff. And we'll plant this one right back here and see if it grows. Alright, we're heading inside. So here's the mammoth here. And this thing is gigantic. And I agree, we should bring these back for sure. Absolutely. This thing's enormous. If they bring the mammoth back, I'm traveling wherever it's at anywhere in the world so I can see it. This thing's awesome. Just huge. Here's some artifacts on the wall here. All kinds of cool stuff. Some of those are probably 3-7 inch long, something like that. Very cool. Well, this is already a better start than what Spyro was for sure. Alright, we'll move along here. You know, they actually have a... They got a bison skull over here. Kind of like the one that I got at home. Looks just about like it. Pretty cool, 5,000 years ago. They went extinct about 5,000 years ago. But I got one like that hanging on my wall at home. Pretty cool. Alright, y'all check this out. Yeah. Look at all those drills. Very cool. Kenny Knives. Full Verities up there. There's a bunch of Jettas. Oh, here's some... Some... Those are Edwards Blades. There's a bunch of Corner Tangs. Put my finger up here so you guys can kind of size comparison. So that's my pointer finger so you can kind of see how big those are. The big ones are probably 5 inch or something like that. Here's some Eccentrics. I like that one right there. That's pretty cool. Frios. Castor Veils. I like Castor Veils. Covington Knives. Here's some Pedernales. Scarlet Lords. Boy, some of those are really, really fine and tiny. I mean, they're tiny. That's about the size of your fingernail. Pointer fingernail. Actually, it's smaller than that, but... Here are Hay Knives. Those are interesting blades. They have that twist to them. Kind of like a Pandele. Montez. Some Marcos. Here's some Paleo Points. Got some Clovises in there. There's some Harpoons. Antler Harpoons. Kirk Corner Knots. Kirk Stem. Here's some Daltons. That's a big old Dalton right there. That thing's probably 8 inches long. Every bit of it. Very nice. Bends. Very cool. St. Charles Dovetails. There's some more Corner Tangs. That one on the right there is probably I don't know, maybe maybe two and a half, three inches long. Something like that. There's some little Calf Creaks. That Coldwater looks a little bit like that. Like a Beaver Lake, I think. That's what it kind of looks like. Oh, here's some Aftons. There's some actual Aftons. I've never seen one of those in person. That's cool. I was supposed to make one of those on video. I still haven't done it. I guess I still need to do that. They've got a bunch of these displays here. Artifacts all over the place. They've got a demonstration thing here that shows the Rough Cobble. Looks like some Burlington from Global around here. And then the first stage, second stage, final pre-film. And on up to finish points. That's some really, really nice to squiggle stones. That's one of the nicest ones I've ever seen. Pretty nice. There's a stickball rackets right there. Considered one of the first sports. I'll let you guys pause on that and read it if you want. That's cool. Here's some woodworking tools. They've got some silts. There's some curvilines. I've made several of those and I found one down there collecting flint down there. Here's some chipped axes. That's interesting. Very cool. Might have to make one of those. There's some variants in them curvilines. Here's some axes. That's a full grooved axe back there it looks like. That's a big one right there splitting some wood with that dude. Polished axes. Double grooved axe. Cool. Now here's some hematite axes. This was found in north northeast Texas. Very cool. I'll tell you what, Spiral Mounds is lacking in in artifacts but this place most certainly is not. Oh nice, here's some pine trees. Pine trees. Huh, nice. Some more peternales. Pelican lakes. Right there, I've made one of those before on video. Morris knives. Bone artifacts. Hair pins. And here's some flat hoes, those dudes are big too. That's big, real big. This one's probably 14 inches long. I like that, they're a pretty good size. The complete knife after long though, looks like a deer leg bone. Yeah, deer leg bone. And the point is attached to it with sinew and asphaltum. Very cool. So you see the knives we all make today but I think a lot of their knives looked a lot like that. Cedellias. Here's some Sloan Dalton's. Or a Sloan Dalton anyways. Scott's Bluffs. Lion Creek, I don't think I've even ever heard of that one. It's a bit like a Dalton. Yeah, it's a Dalton Coltrane, but it's called a Lion Creek. I'd have to look that up. Never looked into that one. Here's some Turkey Tails. Oh, look at this. Tubelo Turkey Tail. This blade right here is probably 14 inches long. Something like that. There's a couple of thieves. That middle one is pretty big. That's probably a 5 1⁄2 inch point at least. Alright, now look at this. The Dalton Cache. Look at those Dalton's. Those are all from Illinois. Read that. I should have brought my microphone. Then you guys would normally hear me better. Hopefully the sound is coming through. Little room cache. This came from Nevaculite. Looks like all Nevaculite. The biggest one in the middle is probably 6 1⁄2 inches. Found in 1976 in McCurtin County, Oklahoma. That's where I live. It's a little river type. Yep, they're all made in Nevaculite. Very cool. That middle one has got a pretty good twist to it. It apparently wasn't concerned with keeping it straight because it's pretty twisted. But they didn't care. I think they were looking for utilitarian use. That's pretty neat. There's some pretty neat pipes. I hope well. That's where the inspiration from Donald Duck came from. This is supposed to be a flying eagle. What have we got over here? Oh, there's a dead man's right there. Look how tiny they are. I mean, they're tiny. That one is maybe less than 1⁄2 inches. Closer to 3⁄8 inches. Tiny. Dixels. Apple Creeks. I was just looking at Apple Creeks just the other day, in fact. Some Adenas. Adena blades. Elko. Those Elko look a little different than most of them you see made these days. Hopewells. There's a big old Ross blade right there. That's a honker right there. A scale horn. What is this? Snaketown. Those are tiny. Want to see how tiny it is? Those are tiny. Super, super narrow. That one's probably 3⁄8 wide and an inch and a half long. Something like that. Pretty close. An inch and 3⁄8. Schneider's. Saville Saws. Old Vessa. Here are some copper points that were part of the old copper complex. First, to the people around the Great Lakes who made weapons and tools from copper perhaps as early as 9,500 years ago. Cool. And this is things that they made. Copper points. Here's some really, really nice banner stones. Hey, now this is one of the things I came here to see. There is the actual, real Sweetwater Biface. There's only one guy in modern times that's been able to even come close to reproducing that that I know of and that's Jason Newman. See how thin it is? Almost disappears when it goes through there. I've held the cast of that in my hand several times and it is so incredibly thin. It is just incredible. I'll try to show you the size so you guys can read this if you want. It's 3⁄16 thick. 9 and 7⁄16 long and 3 and 3⁄8 wide. He was hunting for rattlesnakes when he found it. That is just incredible. This was the main reason I wanted to come here is to see this right here. Just incredible. Yep. It's really that thin. It's kind of dark in here. I'll probably have to mess with the lighting some and hopefully you guys can hear me. I was in a big group of people earlier so it was hard to talk over everybody and not disturb everyone. There's a lot of different vessels here. Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas. Cattle Jar back there. A dog effigy is pretty cool right there. Coupa Coupa Teapot. It's amazing that any of those things like this survived. It just absolutely amazes me. So fragile and they just survived somehow. This is talking about what they used for paint. Talking about open air fired pottery and stuff and how they made it. Very cool. There's a frog effigy bowl that came from Arkansas. That's pretty cool. My wife will appreciate that because she's from the Frog Clan. She'll appreciate that. I don't have any pottery at all other than some chips that Mike had given me for pottery. I'd like to add at least a piece of pottery to my collection. And then over here, what do we got right here? Here's some Gunthers. Boy it's pretty tiny. It's more pottery. This place just goes you know, and they've got these drawers that pull out that's got just all kinds of artifacts in them. I mean you could go through this for hours. There's Alba's. I was actually looking at making some Alba's. I've made a couple of them but they're a tiny point. I like making those little ones. But they have them in Mississippi Archaic I'll probably go through these drawers if I see anything super interesting. San Patrice's. That's cool. If I see anything super interesting in the drawers I'll bring you back. Alright. Here's some Washita's. I made one of those I can't remember if I made it on video not long ago or not or if I or what but a bunch of little little points of talcos I've seen those Washita's and I like those the notches are really high on most of them like a third of the way up or something like that. Some of them are as high as a half but those are fun little points to make. Here's a couple of Hardaway's I like the base on those they've got that kind of a fishtail kind of tail on them. I really like that style point. They're fun to make but Hardaway's is one of my points I really like to make and there's some Hill Burr points next to it Heavy Duty's These drawers are just full of beautiful artifacts. Ok, here's something that's interesting. This is a Merrill Mountain and that's actually the point that I'm supposed to be making on the podcast That's cool There's the information on it I'd say they're two and a half inches long something like that. Two and three quarters maybe not quite three. One might be three but that's the point we're supposed to be making It's going to be next month on the podcast I'll be giving you guys more information on that. It'll be a remote podcast and we'll both be making the same point out of the same material Anyways, I'll let you guys know more about that when it gets a little closer I just noticed this. These little rabbit islands. I like the bases on that I've never actually heard of a rabbit island so I need to look that one up too It's got that little stem that comes out the bottom. A little pointed stem The lighting is not that good in here so I'll have to look it up I can't tell whether or not it's beveled or bifacially sharpened or what Very narrow but a good looking point Might have to make one of those Here's an abbey A little smaller than the abbeys that I normally make for my preforms That one there is only about an inch and a quarter long something like that There's an andice The notches on that andice are probably an inch deep Something like that Close There's some barbed daltons I just love them fishtail points. It's my favorite point I think. I just love the fishtails It doesn't matter which point it is It's got something that appears to be a fishtail Some frios Another fishtail type point Or what I call a fishtail type point There's some first views Chips and cave I've never made those before There's some goaters I've made them before too Garry points Those look like they're all made out of Evaculite Arkansas East Oklahoma So this is a monolithic axe and it's carved from a single piece of stone The ground is shaved and polished That's incredible That took a lot of work to do that at night Can you imagine putting all the work into that and then you break it? Wow It was found in Tennessee Very cool Here's another frog FSU pot This room here is just full of pottery and things Say hi Look at this Can you believe that survived? That is just unbelievable That's where it was found Lee County, Arkansas and there's a copper a spider bogey This pottery just absolutely amazes me I just can't believe that anything like this survived for any period of time, much less 1000, 2000 years Very cool Cute bugs like they're dog effigies for sure There's a turtle You can tell some of these had some restoration done to them. That one's got some cracks on it but it looks like it was put back together but still, I mean to have all those parts there is just unbelievable Look at that That is one of the coolest pots I've ever seen It's a tadpole effigy I don't know if you can see the mouth on that thing That is really, really cool Wow That's the one I want Can you imagine the value on that? I don't know what it'd be but it'd be just incredibly high I would think Thousands Very neat Wow, look right here Here's some Spyro There's some Spyro stuff Finally found some Spyro stuff. Those are Spyro Craig Mound 1933 is the tribute points that I talked about in the last video They were so incredibly thin and well made The hardest thing about making one of those is making it that thin. I mean you can make that point obviously but to make it as thin as they actually were tough to do You need a flint with lots of lots and lots of tensile strength Most of that looks like maybe a piece of Burlington or Keokuk and the rest of it is I'm not sure So it says one person napped all of them They figured one person napped all of them and it was just for art's sake, not practical So this guy really that must have been his specialty and that's how they ended up in the mound just incredibly But I had to come up here at this museum to see anything I wish that the Spyro mounds had just something from there There's Spyro mounds over here Oh good So there's some Spyro mounds over here too, some beads So all this came out of the Spyro mounds I guess polished shell beads It's a wood Wood mask Ear spools Big ol' giant shells Those are big shells, I mean big big Stone pipes That's an effigy That's a resting warrior effigy pot You guys can pause on that and read it if you want That's some of the some of the looting by the Golden Mining Company Incredible Those shells are just incredible And those shells were traded all the way from the southern southern tip of Florida and brought there which is amazing, also someone had to carry those things there all that ways and that's a good long ways There's some cattle pottery Clark County, Arkansas Ear spools Corvette pendants Mississippian There's a cat serpent effigy bottle Now that duck's got a turban on his back That's cool Very cool And this just keeps going on and on and on and on Longdale effigy pots Oh now that's cool, I like these oddball ones, like this raccoon effigy That's pretty cool right there Maybe that's the one I'd like to have Very neat Now there's a half to dad's That's how small the dad's is Just shoots knife from California Something I've noticed about a lot of these artifacts is a a lot of them have pretty good twists Especially the knives They weren't worried about keeping them straight They're bird twisted Not all of them, but a lot of them were And here's some head pots I don't know if I'd want that staring at me every day I think I'd stick with the raccoon This guy's just spinning forever Imagine the person that made that I wonder what they'd think if you could bring it back and show them where it's at now Pretty crazy Face of the past Very cool Alright, now we're getting into something here Boy, look at this Look at these aggies Agies Let's see, the second one end from the left on top, that point is maybe 3 quarters of an inch long and it's better than a quarter wide, but not much Those things are absolutely tight, super, super delicate, unbelievable Here's some bone fish hooks You guys know I like all these little bitty points Very cool, here's some pendants They're teeth pendants That's kind of cool There's some more haze points I wish the lighting was a little better in here I don't have all that much interest in those, but I do have these These are Mayan Eccentrics Look at this Those are pretty big pieces too That little snake eccentric right there If that's what it is, it's probably 6 inches, 7 inches long probably, something like that We got scorpion effigies All kinds of stuff Just crazy little doodles, quite a few scorpions though Which is pretty cool There's some Mayan blades Guatemala and Mexico Pretty interesting how those were manufactured We got a teepee set up here Going into the next room There's some more pods over here from South America Pretty elaborate stuff There's a chihuahua from Mexico, I don't know where it's from I don't know what it is Yep, they're from Mexico, that must be a chihuahua Maybe they're all chihuahuas They look like chihuahuas Well, that's a pig Looks like a pig, I guess But those are not chihuahuas Mexican chihuahua dogs Jaguar effigy pods Birds Fat chihuahua Pretty cool Let's go through the teepee here Alright, so We're inside the teepee They just got some things set up in here Snowshoes Says don't touch Don't touch any of that stuff That looks like it's probably a pretty cool quiver Made out of coyote skin There's a Garment covered in shells There's a quiver right there Got some arrows in it There's a bow there Let's see here What do we got going on in here Got some rugs Screes of some sort or another Well, what is this here That's a That's a bison hide So it's got all kinds of different symbols Here And what the different symbols are Not sure that I can get A picture of all that But it's All these different symbols So you look at all these symbols And you can look on the bison hide And figure out what They were Putting down there It's kind of a way of keeping history I guess That's an old hide Um That's not something that's new Here's the I'll let you guys read that So this is showing Some early trade Commerce items And that's a pipe tomahawk That's cool circa 1800 Offering pipe Glass bottles Unwrapped that There's another Pipe tomahawk There's amazing craftsmanship in that thing I don't know if you guys can tell How amazing the craftsmanship Is in this tomahawk It's pretty incredible It's a beautiful, beautiful piece Cherokee child's jacket 1890 to 1920 Donated by Sam Johnson Now these are Cherokee blowguns So these long ones that you see here And they're probably 7 feet But those are Cherokee blowguns Wood and trade paint Cool It looks like they were put together in two pieces I see a joint Right in the middle there Where apparently they were put together In two pieces And joined together with a sleeve And some binding it looks like And then the mouthpiece Is Also a separate piece Which is put on and bound Interesting You can see the joint Right here where they're put together That's cool You know the one thing I have not seen here Is anything Alaskan Look at that It's a moose hide Moose hide Garment That is incredibly preserved Made in 1800 to 1840 Soft tan moose hide Let's see if I can Zoom in on it So you guys can see These things I'm zooming in on Hopefully you guys can pause it and read it So you can get an idea But This thing That had to have been just put away In a chest somewhere To survive all these years I mean that coat's over Over 200 years old You know Pretty incredible This was 1870 to 1875 It's a canvas shirt I should have zoomed in on it earlier You guys can read through the Shine on the Thing there The scalp blocks are missing I guess Some of them are missing So apparently he hung scalps off that Oh that one Right there It's got that raven head on it Black foot medicine pipe That's cool right there Yeah It's got a raven's beak It's got a raven's head And they got beads for his eyes That's really cool Pipe bags So they had special bags They kept their pipes in Some more tomahawk pipes Oh there's an Inuit Inuit Kayak There's an Alaskan doll There's a couple Alaskan things there Not much though Circa 1910 Got all the Grizzly bear claws Has a necklace It's got river otter And a weir head And then the claws The front claws are much longer on a grizzly bear I would say There's four bear At least two bears there I didn't count them all but somewhere around Two or more Alright now this is pretty cool Here's a child's bow set With some little short arrows No points on them Torped bow Bow's probably Maybe three feet long And here's some Here's some authentic bows There's not a great way to show these South Dakota U.S. Maine All kinds of bows Most of them are pretty long That plane's bow is probably the shortest one It's probably not that short So here's a bunch of Minimal groups And the different things that you can They use to Pour Alaska stuff Here Looks like that's a bay That's a bay blanket And it's a potlatch cap They wear that when they're dancing at the potlatch Which is a It's a After one year It's a celebration of life kind of thing Anyways That's actually Believe it or not That thing that's that big right there Is probably 12 or 14 inches long But that's a hell of a hook A blanket hell of a hook That's the most sunglasses There's another hook Well folks That's it, we went through the whole thing And I could spend Hours more in there staring at arrowheads And studying them But it didn't disappoint This place is awesome If you guys ever get a chance to come to Bentonville, Arkansas And come to the Museum of Native American History You won't be disappointed It's fantastic, it really is It's a pretty neat place Pretty neat And I'll probably be back again And the highlight for me Was probably the Sweetwater Biface Of course I don't know why us Nappers have an obsession with that I guess because it's Impossible But pretty incredible And I was glad I got to see some Spiro artifacts I was so bummed out yesterday When there wasn't any artifacts there To speak of at all There was a canoe there A wooden canoe, which that was cool And a pot that got donated back But that was pretty much it That's all that was there And then It could have been great because they had the signage And stuff You could have read more But then the signage was faded out But this place made up for it 100% Very cool I believe this is the largest one in the country I suppose maybe You go to the Smithsonian or something like that I don't know But anyways This is definitely worth a stop If you're ever here in this part of the country I'll be back up here in about a month For the Water Creek Nappian It's up in this area Yelby and Larkin South is coming up I'm planning on being there But yeah, pretty neat If you ever get a chance to come up here Come on up And I appreciate y'all watching And I'll put this together And we'll catch you on the next one And that woolly mammoth Mastodon in there is Flippin' awesome I hope they bring him back I don't care all you naysayers out there Whining and crying about bringing back the woolly mammoth Whatever I want to see a woolly mammoth It's not like a T-Rex It's not going to eat you It might step on you The only thing better than an elephant Is a hairy elephant So yeah, let's bring him back Alright y'all, we'll catch you on the next one Y'all keep napping