Mar. 19th, 2011

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Anyone know what sort of rock this is? It's identified as a fur-scraper, Nipissing Aboriginal peoples, pre-1650. It's clearly worked stone. It's not flint, or it doesn't look like it to me or to the owner, nor yet is it obsidian.




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"she died in child birth ... 17 days after their son ... was born."

D'you know, I think she may perhaps have died of complications RELATED to childbirth, probably, at 17 days, infection rather than bleeding.

I do NOT wish to contemplate the notion of twins SEVENTEEN DAYS APART.

ETA: Also, just YIKES:

[Thomas Darling] married Elspeth Fraser Simpson in 1871 in Montreal. She gave birth to a daughter, Helen, later Nellie, in 1872, and died of complications related to childbirth just before her 26th birthday, 17 days after the birth of David Darling. David died on August 24, 1874.

In 1876 Darling married Harriet Jane Bennie, and they had two children, a second David and a daughter Elspeth (Eppie). Harriet also died in childbirth, in 1879, in Colorado.

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Thanks to everyone who took a look at this for me. Here are some better pics, with multiple angles and better detail.

six large pictures of a small rock )

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