[meteorite-list] Toluca Axe?

From: al mitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:59:03 -0400
Message-ID: <8422A51DA5204DE5B9425EDA431C5DDF_at_StarmanPC>

Hi Bernd,

Not following the thread or who wrote about the Toluca Axe but I have a nice
photo of the axe from ASU. Dr. Moore mentioned that the material was
probably a recent fabrication when Nininger went down on his visit.

Who ever started this thread contact me.

--AL Mitterling


----- Original Message -----
From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
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Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:05 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Toluca Axe?


>> am being told that ASU has an AXE from Toluca so I
>> am going to try and find a pic but I have not seen it yet.
>
>
> This one (see JPGEG in private mail)? Sorry for the poor quality but
> it 's a scanned version of a b&w reprint from 1952! The description
> says:
>
> "An implement known as a barretta, forged from a meteorite in the
> Village of Xiquipilco. For use, a handle is inserted in the sleeve at
> the top and the tool is used much as we use a crowbar."
>
>
>
> Meteorites of Xiquipilco, Mexico - by Dr. H.H. Nininger, Director,
> American Meteorite Museum, Winslow, Ariz., Photos by Nininger
>
> Reprint from Earth Science Digest, November,
> 1952, Vol. 6, No. 3. Pages 19 to 30, excerpt):
>
> The Search for Implements
>
> In 1929 I had succeeded in finding a single implement manufactured
> from meteoritic iron, and we had hoped to discover more on the recent
> expedition. We continually kept on the alert when tools or implements
> were in sight, but all were evidently of artificial steel.
> We had planned to carry on this search through the local blacksmith, but
> fate seemed to be against us. Xiquipilco is by no means a cultured
> community.
> I have not seen, in all of my travels in Mexico, a village that seemed to
> have
> absorbed less of civilization. Life is rugged there. And so it was that a
> murdered
> man was carried into the office of the "Presidente" about the time we
> arrived;
> and it turned out that the blacksmith who was prominent on our list of
> persons
> to be visited was not to be interviewed. He it was who had committed the
> murder.
> We thought it best that strange people should not be showing too much
> interest
> in him on this particular occasion.
>
>
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