Way Over the Back Fence

[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]

HCH members would jump all over this

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).