Arrowheads

For a Bear Scout activity, we took the boys to the workshop of a man, Mike Sjoberg, who makes and sells arrowheads.  He gave us a little tour of his shop and showed us some neat tools (his parents owned an antique shop all of his life, so he had all sorts of old and interesting things to see.)  Mike and his wife are "rock-hounds";  they search for obsidian together and then he makes arrowheads and sells them at rock shows.  He also had lots of geodes, petrified wood, and even fossils!

This is a fossil of part of a vertebrae.  I'm not sure what type of animal it came from though.

He let each of the boys have a bit of obsidian to try and carve their own arrowhead.  It was a lot of fun!