shared Larry Kinsella's photo.
On a Cahokia Mounds World Heritage Site artifact --
Carolyn's shark's tooth club! Five great white shark's
teeth with eight flint teeth, in a walnut handle. Larry's
interpretation of the two clubs from Cahokia Mounds.
I interviewed Greg Perino a few years before he died.
This is what he had to say when asked about the
shark's teeth: Interview with Greg Perino at his home
27 Jan. 2002 When asked where the extra shark’s
teeth were found, Greg said that the stemmed and
slightly singed one was found by his son at the
junction of the terraces on the West side of mound
34. He also found several side-notched points burned
in that pit. The two burned ICST (imitation chert
shark's teeth) had convex bases and were found on
34 (“Two of these I found plowed up on a small
mound. They had been burned”.) The sample of
walnut (from the original club) from the club should
still be at the ISM. Greg mentioned that the flood of
46 was the one that had taken down the Ramey field
deep enough so that the shark’s tooth burial could be
plowed out. It was probably deeper but the water
washed away a foot or two of soil in the Ramey field.
That flood had 11 inches one night and 16 inches the
next night. Greg couldn’t get into the field for 3 days
and the water was up to his hubcaps even then. Greg
mentioned that other teeth we’re trying to
provenience were probably from 34. He said that the
drilled tooth with the bone intact was found at 34 in
the refuse pit under the mound and is at Gilcrease.
