Flake To Point Plus Authentic Bayogoula Arrowheads

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:06]Hey folks, so I have angered the napping gods. Not really.

[00:00:15]All right, so we're going to talk about bayou golas again.

[00:00:20]And uh that video really didn't get much play and uh this one probably won't either. But uh got some good feedback and I got feedback from several people, multiple people.

[00:00:36]And I I I respect several of them, but William Warner, my friend Bill, had posted this on uh on that uh video, and I agree with what he wrote 100%.

[00:00:54]There's no doubt. But let me read this to you because I I know a lot of you don't read the comments. This is lots of those lots of those are silt stone that looks a bit grainy. I agree. A lot of those are um a lot of those points from that whole area because some of that uh citronanel gravel is is is grainier and some of it's some of it's real slick, some of it's grainy, but uh mostly all citronanel gravel and it's all smaller stuff. I've actually got probably 100 plus authentic bifaces of citronanel gravel. None of it heat treated. Almost all of them are just as fat now as when the dude started flaking on them.

[00:01:37]Literally. I'll have to show them to you sometimes. But uh let's see. Let's go on here. But probably most, if not all, started off as as a flake off a larger though often still small piece of gravel. Agreed. 100%.

[00:01:53]Taking your original tab and knocking a bunch of 1 and 1/2 to 2 in 2 and 1/2 in flakes off off it would have been the way to start. Agreed. Then make thin bayugas out of those flakes. Most of the thinning is in the original flake.

[00:02:11]I can see that. I could I could definitely see that. Um and it shows in some of my artifacts which I'll show you here in just a minute.

[00:02:19]Uh let's see. Which is the equivalent of of a spall for a knife blade or a liable point removal. Such the technique s such such is the technique for most true arrowheads which require delicate techniques usually all pressure flaking on thin devotage flakes rather than rock to point method with percussion. One piece of good citror gravel even though only about the size of a large piece of ABC gravel might produce enough flakes for several uh bayugola points. Conservation of the material is important when you're a rock in a rockport area which Mississippi area is. East Texas is also um Louisiana is also so that whole area where these are from is very rock poor. Um you go further down in Texas on the east side of Texas further down and you got plenty of rock down there. But this part of East Texas, which is just south of me here about 5 miles, is very very rock poor. There's there's no rocks here on on our place or anywhere even near here unless you brought them here. All right. So, uh conservation material is important when you are in a rockpour area and good stuff is days away through areas controlled by other people that want to kill you. I agree 100%.

[00:03:48]Okay, so I also got several other masters. They weren't as nice. They told me I was just wasting the resource, but uh as I said in that video, I'd been on the road for a whole week. I was wore slap out and I sat down here and I was trying to find my citroronel. I have a whole bucket of citronanel gravel from this big to this big, like 4 in, which is pretty big for citronel gravel.

[00:04:17]that's heat treated, ready to go, and it's buried in a shop. Um, I have a pile here next to me that's crates that are 3 feet tall and earlier today it was 6 feet tall, but we got rid of some of that stuff and I believe it's buried underneath the bottom of that. I'm still not going to dig it out. I'm too tired.

[00:04:33]I work outside most of the day all day today. But, uh, let's show show you some Bayugas. Now, these are out of my collection.

[00:04:42]And so, here's the Bayouas. I'm going to zoom in here.

[00:04:55]Now, they're relatively I mean, they're pretty crudely made.

[00:05:12]This is just sharpened off one side. Not even nothing on the other side. So, just very basic. That one's pretty fat for the size of it. It's pretty fat.

[00:05:27]It's flat on one side, not on the other.

[00:05:31]This is a citronanel CH. This is Citronel CH. I'm not sure what this is.

[00:05:37]um for sure. I don't know that that's citel. It could be though. But they're pretty small, right? So these are even smaller than what the smallest ones in the book.

[00:05:54]Now, the one we made matched up to this one. It was the same same length exactly, which was 2 and 38. So, we weren't outside the realm, but I was making a making a larger one. Um, and like I said in the video, it wasn't keeping keep really keeping with the with the book 100%. But, uh, and this one is is really awkward because it has bulberous uh ears on here and all the rest of them, it's got these thin thin ears here. So, it is definitely different. It makes me wonder if it's not misidentified, but I'm not sure.

[00:06:32]But see, you can see here.

[00:06:36]I guess that would be about the same size as that one if it had the tip. So, they are about that size. I guess this one's about size of the second biggest one. Now, how big is that? Let's see.

[00:06:52]A little over an inch, probably.

[00:06:56]So if it had the tip on it, just about an inch and a quarter at the most.

[00:07:01]Probably inch and a quarter.

[00:07:04]But these are authentic by youas right here.

[00:07:09]That's what they look like.

[00:07:12]I've seen these that were way I've actually got a couple more I didn't bring out that are really bad. Really, really bad. They didn't put a lot of effort into these.

[00:07:25]I don't think in my opinion they didn't.

[00:07:27]But most of the points from that area in that time period are really rough. I've got cases of them and they're all incredibly rough.

[00:07:38]These are probably some of the better made ones out of that actually. But anyhow, I just wanted to show you some of those.

[00:07:46]And uh now I really appreciate Bill. You gave me some things to think about. And Bill is an I have a lot of respect for for Bill. He's an incredibly intelligent man and uh he's a good dude and I really appreciate his his input and I agree with him 100%.

[00:08:10]What I don't agree with is you other two Yahoos.

[00:08:14]There was actually three, but two Yahoos that uh decided they wanted to give me an earful cuz I was wasting the resource. And I can see where you might see it that way.

[00:08:26]And I didn't want to dig through that thing. And I did start with a too big a too big a deal. I did collect here's the flakes. Here's some flakes off of that point that we made. So I picked up some of the flakes. I didn't pick up all of them, but I picked up some of them. And we are going to make or attempt to make a bayou gola.

[00:08:53]from a flake.

[00:09:24]When I'm doing this, I'm trying not to stall the edge out. You can see that put a bevel on it.

[00:09:34]When you're crunching these in, if you stall that edge out, then you can no longer Keep scrunching.

[00:09:47]All right, we're going to go with that.

[00:10:02]All right, now this is going to be a bunch of pressure pling.

[00:10:15]I very well may break it.

[00:10:22]I've given some serious thought about napping heat treating and napping some of those bifaces.

[00:10:28]I'd be interested in what y'all's thoughts about that are. They really have no value to them at all.

[00:10:49]Well, am I in not in frame or what? I don't think I was in frame. God damn it.

[00:10:57]All right. I might not have been in frame there for that first part. If I wasn't, then I'll just delete that portion.

[00:11:05]I'm actually going to zoom out a little bit so I can stay in frame and then try and fix it in editing, which is I've been doing that a lot here lately.

[00:11:54]I actually forgot I had those bayou goas in there to be honest with you. I completely forgot. I actually think I got a couple other ones, too.

[00:12:04]But I forgot they were even in there.

[00:12:48]All the same rules apply.

[00:12:56]This is just a piece of soft leather rolled up.

[00:13:00]It's rolled up pretty tight.

[00:13:10]When I say soft leather, I mean this is this is a is this pig? I think this is pig.

[00:13:20]And it's a some leather out of the shop that used for lining leather. So it's very thin, very soft.

[00:13:48]Turn that edge up. And I'm going to come in on this little ridge right there. Try to and flatten that out.

[00:14:16]The other weird thing is all those bifaces I have, none of them are heat treated. Not any of them. And they knew about heat treating long before those were made.

[00:14:26]So, I'm not sure why they weren't heat treating that stuff, but they weren't.

[00:14:33]Or at least these ones didn't.

[00:14:43]Now, like Bill uh had alluded to there, these being a flake, a lot of these, like some of these, like you seen there, they don't really even have any flake scars on one side.

[00:15:06]An arrowhead don't need flex to function. All right. So, This one might actually be smaller than the metal ones. I don't know when I'm done. We'll see.

[00:15:33]Bill is a tried and trueue rockhound.

[00:15:36]And uh he's a bug guy, too.

[00:15:45]Not like the bug guy I have come here and spray my bugs. He's like a bug collector guy.

[00:15:51]Very interesting fella.

[00:15:55]get a chance to meet Bill. He should I should have spent more time sitting down with him there at Brady. But I really didn't do that much sitting down with people at Brady cuz I I was not feeling very good at at Brady. It was so wore out from I just got back off that big trip out west and like only for a couple days and then we took off down there and and uh man I was so wor. I feel like I'm just now starting to recover from that. And last week we collected a bunch of rock last week and we was pretty dog on wiped out after spending several Today is collecting in Hulling Rock there in Missouri and then heading to Texas and it's falling out in the sunshine for 5 hours. I pretty well looked Okay, let's see. I need to I probably been out of frame.

[00:18:37]I like it when guys like Bill comment on there and share their knowledge on the channel. It's fantastic.

[00:18:48]A lot of you have a better way of putting things than I do. And I think I was making that point about it was the middle of the night, late at night. Anyways, Little rock and pop braider action.

[00:20:52]Okay, let's see.

[00:20:57]I'm going to have to put a put this down there so you guys can see what I'm doing and so that I can see what I'm doing, too.

[00:21:54]You cannot hunt with this point this day and age. I don't know a single a single state that will allow you to hunt with a point this narrow.

[00:22:11]Almost every state's got a a width requirement and a lot of them are an inch and an eighth.

[00:22:26]So if you made it and you're going to hunt with it and they gave more to check your quiver you would probably be in trouble.

[00:22:53]No probably about it you would be I see the purpose of the law. When I was in Alaska, I helped with a lot of that kind of stuff with the there's a fishing game board.

[00:23:09]Way fishing game does is there's a civilian board that that does a lot of the stuff in Alaska and advises the fishing game and all that kind of stuff.

[00:23:23]and uh I was not on the board, but I did a had I had a lot of involvement in that kind of stuff and getting archery only areas open in certain areas for mountain goats and and other things. There really wasn't any archery only stuff there.

[00:23:41]There just really wasn't much other than the Hall Road, which was 5 miles off each side of the road for Caribou.

[00:23:54]But we working got a lot of things opened up for archery only.

[00:24:16]Let's see. Is that going to work or what?

[00:24:28]I'll put one of those right there so I can look at it. It's still way too way too big.

[00:24:37]I mean, way too big.

[00:26:11]Oh.

[00:28:12]Not sure why they universally or unifacially sharpened a lot of those.

[00:28:23]Some of them are un facially sharpened and some of them are not.

[00:28:35]I don't know if that was pretty standard practice or It doesn't say that in the book. I'm just going off a the artifacts that I've got.

[00:30:15]Those ears are This base is still too wide. The whole thing is really too wide still.

[00:33:08]But this one area right here I didn't put any flakes cars across It's sharp enough.

[00:34:58]Looks kind of like a spade, I guess.

[00:35:26]I can't tell that they're ground, per se.

[00:36:15]Good luck. in the book.

[00:36:22]Yeah, we're still a little bit fatter, wider than those are.

[00:36:32]Probably need to narrow this down a little bit more. It's probably too fat.

[00:36:37]Don't know if that is the case or not, but yeah, I probably need to narrow it down a bit.

[00:37:36]This one is definitely thinner than any of those other ones.

[00:39:52]Okay. Well, I think that's close enough.

[00:40:11]I could make this a little bit sharper on the point.

[00:40:33]That could be a little bit. I don't know.

[00:40:37]I think it's fine.

[00:40:41]I don't have dozens of them here to look at, but The ones I'm looking at here seems plausible. Mine's still pretty good size. You know, it's still about the same length as that one right there. The length on this, although it's much much smaller, is an inch and almost 38.

[00:41:09]Yeah. Right at an inch and 38.

[00:41:14]So, which I thought that's what I measured this at. No, it was a little bit short.

[00:41:20]Inch and a quarter. So, it's not too much longer. It is a little bit wider.

[00:41:27]We got our bulberous midsection.

[00:41:31]So, there we go. And uh I appreciate all the feedback even yahoos that I agree. Some of some some people just have nothing better to do than just have a fit about things. And honestly, I don't even think they were even flintnappers.

[00:41:50]I I pretty sure they weren't. But anyways, there's our little bayou gola from a flake. And I've got several more flakes here from that piece so that I can nap those into little bitty bayou golas and appease the flintnapping gods.

[00:42:08]So, if you ever run into Bill Warner and he has something to say, you should listen.

[00:42:14]But he's a smart man.

[00:42:17]And he was 100% right about all that.

[00:42:19]And I should have mentioned that stuff in the video as well. But I'm going to tell you guys another little secret about some of that stuff that happens is that material really flaked really nice and I haven't been moving a lot of that material. So I also wanted to shoot a video showing that stuff flaking. So, wasn't the main reason, but that was my main reason was laziness, not want to dig out the citror gravel, but that was just something I grabbed out of the back of the truck on the way by I didn't have to dig for.

[00:43:02]So, there's a Bayugola.

[00:43:09]They're a cool little point, I guess.

[00:43:12]Crazy that they hunt a deer with those that small. I mean, and much much smaller than this, even much narrower.

[00:43:22]Their bows had plenty of power, I believe, to to handle a slightly larger.

[00:43:28]And it makes me wonder, they probably I don't know if they all used four shafts or not, but I would have to think that most of them did because there's zero front of center with this. I'm an avid bow hunter. I've killed hundreds and hundreds of big game animals with a bow.

[00:43:44]I hunted with a bow my entire life.

[00:43:49]My first bow I was I think I got, you know, like most kid kids that were growing up in my age, uh, you know, by the time you're 5 years old, you got a bow or younger even. So, and my dad was always a bow hunter and we just did not hunt with rifles at all or anything else. We just bow hunted. I even hunted I even hunted water foul with a bow. So there's a bay you go. Neat little point.

[00:44:17]Any I appreciate y'all watching. Sorry about the rambling on them. I really wasn't upset about those other guys. I I really I really don't care. And I I really seeing bills and I thought well this is a good opportunity to uh bring some of those points up that I did miss in the first video and make one in this fashion.

[00:44:36]I don't know.

[00:44:38]It is very thin.

[00:44:42]Very thin. But it's made from a flake.

[00:44:45]And we got the rest of these flakes here. And there's more laying in the floor. I'm not going to pick them up.

[00:44:50]But I probably will make a couple more Bayugas out of some of this stuff. Get a little larger one that that actually ought to go to something else. A little bit thicker. But these thin flakes right here are perfect for it. So anyways, appreciate y'all. We'll catch you on the next one. Y'all keep napping.