Snowflake Obsidian gives us clarity and sharpens our intellect. Snowflake Obsidian helps us survive shock and trauma and to endure the slow trudge back to healing and happiness. It reminds us that we are resilient and that we have the ability to reshape our life into something that brings us pleasure and peace. Snowflake Obsidian is a crystal ally during the lonely days and nights when life is bleak and we feel lost. Instead it is a quiet, loyal friend who wants to help lift us up.
It doesn’t make demands or offer judgement. It helps us to do what needs to be done, while remembering to be kind to ourselves during the process. Snowflake Obsidian is a gentle stone during times of difficult transition. She has every confidence they’ll soon find their place again and all will be well. She know their true quality and the beauty of their heart. The real “why”, the real purpose of life, is something that comes from within. She knows that finding a purpose in life is not really about an outside-identity defined by places, people and things. Now they feel like they are drifting and it doesn’t feel pleasant or safe.Ī friend is watching the transition and hopes they find a new purpose soon. That purpose gave them clarity, passion and focus. They miss having that sure knowledge that the daily chores are meaningful and serve a greater purpose. They miss having a positive reason to get out of bed everyday. But it’s having that “purpose” that they miss the most. It’s hard to create a new life or believe in love, when everything’s been lost. They knew their purpose and what they were suppose to do every day. Berry, The Evans Site (Salt Lake City: Department of Anthropology, University of Utah Special Report, 1972).They are in transition right now. Source: Wildhorse Canyon Obsidian Quarry Nomination Form, National Register of Historic Places, Preservation Office files, Utah Division of State History Michael S. A good guess is that it served as western Utah’s major obsidian quarry for several thousand years. Thus Wildhorse Canyon was probably a source of raw obsidian and perhaps finished obsidian goods for a considerably larger area and longer time span than represented by the Fremont villages. While sizeable, their populations could not in so few centuries have performed the amount of quarrying nor produced the quantity of detritus seen at the Wildhorse site. The prehistoric Indians who frequented Hogup and Danger Caves 8,000 to 10,000 years ago did not use Wildhorse obsidian.įifth, the Fremont villages were active between A.D. All three obsidians have been found at the Wildhorse Canyon quarry.įourth, no other quarry with all three types of obsidian has been discovered in Utah. Archaeological exploration of these villages has uncovered artifacts made of three types of obsidian: True obsidian, which is transparent with closely-spaced, horizontal black bands pitchstone, actually a dense, opaque, black volcanic glass brown obsidian, streaked with flowing bands of brown, red, and black. Third, some 45 miles south of the quarry stand the remains of four Fremont Indian villages. The finished or nearly finished products were then transported elsewhere, perhaps to distant users.
In neither the tailings nor these camps have large chunks of obsidian been discovered, suggesting that the knapping (breaking and shaping of the stone) was performed at or near the quarry. Second, chipping or manufacturing camps have been found along the nearby Mineral foothills. The depth and content of tailings, including obsidian fragments and hand-hewn castoffs, indicate much more than a few generations of use.
Several observations led to this conclusion.įirst, extensive piles of tailings lie along the foot of the ridge. On this ridge, mixed with tuff, perlite and basalt stone, are three obsidian flows with a total thickness of 65 feet.Īrchaeological and scientific studies suggest this site has served as a major obsidian quarry and manufacturing station for this part of the Great Basin for not hundreds but thousands of years. Lying between the tines is a short ridge. The canyon has no year-round stream.Ībove its mouth, Wildhorse forks into a small side channel and the main canyon. Here the terrain is rough, blanketed with pinyon and juniper forest underlain by sagebrush, cacti, and grasses. In Utah’s Mineral Mountains, overlooking the west desert, is the entrance to Wildhorse Canyon.
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