I've heard the story in re: Australian aborigines.  There are red glass insulators but they are very uncommon.  On the other hand, I suppose if a batch were made from red glass they would probably end up along the same line of telegraph poles.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: Ron May <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2007 3:06 am
Subject: Glass Insulators - Myth or Truth?

> Since a lot of the information passed on through HISTARCH is the 
> sort of  
> thing you might hear around a SHA bar table, I have a tale to 
> impart that I  
> heard at a Pecos Conference in Tucson, Arizona from the late  Paul 
> H. Ezell. He 
> claimed the source of red glass projectile points in a  particular 
> part of 
> Arizona were red glass telegraph pole insulators. He read  an 
> account that 
> described an incident in which an Apache climbed a  telegraph pole 
> and chipped the red 
> glass insulators off to be used as cores. I  no longer recall the 
> other men 
> at the table, but several claimed seeing red  glass flakes, core 
> fragments and 
> projectiles. Has anyone else here in this room  heard that tale? 
> 
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
> 
> 
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