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Native American, Western Great Lakes Region, Wisconsin and Southern Canada, Old Copper Complex Culture, Late Archaic Period, ca. 3000 BCE. A fantastic selection of five rare copper items from one of the earliest Native American tribes in North America. First is a slender needle with one curved tip. Second is a knife with a slender blade and sharpened edges. Third is a hefty trapezoidal celt with a thick handle body and a sharpened, crescent-shaped edge. Fourth is a petaloid spear tip with flanged hafting fins on one side of the tang. The largest item is a tapered spear head with a sharpened tip and a solid tang. Given the make-shift tools and primitive smelting techniques, scholars posit that copper blades like these examples were shaped through the cold-forming method where raw material is gradually shaped into certain forms at temperatures - usually ambient - below the threshold at which recrystallization (molecular restructuring) occurs. Size of largest (large spearhead): 7.2" L x 1.2" W (18.3 cm x 3 cm)For further information on the Old Copper Complex Culture as well as stylistically-similar examples , please see the Manitoba Archaeological Society, University of Manitoba. Provenance: private Minnesota, USA collection; ex-Old Barn Auctions, Ohio, USA; (needle) ex-Ted Fowles collection, found in April 1967 at Black Bird Island, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, #311; (knife) ex-Kirk Whaley collection, found in 1931 in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, #245; (celt) ex-Wiesner collection, found near Winneconne, Wisconsin, #154 All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide to most countries and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #150446