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Frozen Run:
I found this the other day and thought it was pretty cool:

https://www.nps.gov/vafo/learn/historyculture/upload/PowderHorns-with-arrowhead.pdf   

Ats5331:
Very neat! HCH members would jump all over this

Frozen Run:

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I'd like to know what they have to say about the dog's head horn on page 24...I wonder if the stopper on it is the original? I don't think it's too far fetched to imagine a more whimsically carved stopper to put in its mouth like a ham bone or a piece of fruit?

heinz:
Do they not realize that those small horns cannot be priming horns?  Ink horns, or salt horns, or a place to keep your pet lice and ticks, but not priming horns :-)

Maven:
Here are two horns of some vintage displayed in the Shanghai (yes, that Shanghai) Museum.  I photographed them through glass, but forgot to include the probable date or other relevant information (or I cropped it out).

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