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mnediately; believing this |

rieving 'good!

pieces. Over the course of time, lecal coilecting activities have

pecome highly competative and fellow collectors are now looked

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nfortunately, arch-

ecologists coming into the area are often icoked upon in this same

regard. With such competeativeness, many ‘new! collectors are
neither willing to- inform. arcnaeolo ogists: of the location of the ir

finds, nor allow archaeolozists access to their | collections. Many

down between archaeologists and iccai coilect
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collecting for 3 years or less

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ignorance.

‘Arrowheads', being the most recognizable of the Indian artifacts,

have become the main objects of their searches. Other 'new' col-

lectors, bring home anything and everythin

that might resemble a

foreign rock on the beach. Cne collector showed us a collection

of rocks that she had collected and nad clas

leave it to the reader to imegins whet these

ified as game stones,

nh, sex stones. (1

types of stones looked

The result of such collecting orocedures is that: (1) Im-