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[Troy Shaffer]

A lady my wife works with picked this up in Cortez Colorado. She ask me what it is was since nobody has been able to ID it..... Me either. It is very organic looking I'd say maybe a shell or something. Medium hardness a scratch test showed it didn't leave metal on the stone but also didn't put much of a scratch on it either. Hopefully the pictures are ok all I had was my cell phone.


Thanks Troy

[lithicbeads]

 That is a great one. The color looks exactly correct for the purple of a shell used in native American decorative work. I have seen this in old work from the southwest as well as cut and inlayed in more contemporary southwestern native work. I will look up the name tomorrow. These finds can be great fun. I once found a turquoise nugget on a beach here in Washington , a beach famous for being a canoe pullout spot where the tribes of the north coast came to trade with the inland Salish tribes from eastern Washington. The north south trade route in eastern Washington goes around the end of lake Chelan  a 50 mile long lake that goes east -west. They then hiked 30 miles over the Cascade crest using Cascade Pass and then canoed down the Cascade and Skagit river  for about 65 miles to tidewater. I bet that shell has a great story also.

[wampidy]

It has to be something that was worn on the body because it is marked XXL for extra extra large. Or not. haha
Jim        Nice find by the way.

[Phishisgroovin]

it also has a stick man on it pointing up to the right dead center lol! 

[Kaljaia]

Yeah sure looks like a shell. There's critters that burrow into the shells and leave those patterns; when you find really old pieces of shell on a beach, they'll look rounded and pock-marked like that.