Rodney Michel's Website

This Site was last updated on 12/29/2007

Educational Links and Galleries
Pacific NW Coast Columbia River Great Basin Montana
My Personal Collection Private Collections Insitu Artifacts & Info Yukon Territory
Misc United States Relics Pre Columbian Western Market Report New Mexico & West Texas
Museum Images     Contact Info
BC & American Indian Artifacts For Sale Links
Contact Information Tony's Top Grade Artifacts Rod's Top Grade Artifacts
Tony's About Me and Sales Policy Tony's Mid Grade Artifacts Rod's Mid Grade Artifacts
Rod's Sale Policy Gold Rush & Western Fur Trade Best of the West Artifacts
Biography & Credentials Northwest Native Baskets Misc Collectibles & Fossils
Western Market Report Museum  & Premium Quality Field Grade Artifacts
Certificate of Authenticity Wood Carvings, Contemporary Art Adzes, Bowls, Mauls
Statement of Provenience Stone, Shell & Glass Beads Paleo, Scrapers, and Tools
Relic-Related Written Articles Collectable Postcards and Paper Pre Columbian Artifacts
Consigned Artifacts For Sale Alaskan Artifacts Native Jewelry
Artifacts Wanted! Old Bottles Wholesale Priced Artifacts
How to Place an Order Floyd Hoyz Artifact Collection Robert E Stewart Collection and Documents
The primary purpose of these pages are to share information regarding native American Indian artifact collecting. There are numerous images of ancient stone artifacts from the Columbia River, Great Basin, Northwest Coast, Plains, Midwest, Mexico, and other areas in North or South America. In particular I am interested in developing a clear understanding of NW carved or decorated ground stone such as zoomorphic figurine mauls & pestles, bowls, bone, antler, ornaments like labrets (lip plug), ear spools, pendants, beads, combs, adze, axe, clubs, but also enjoy Paleo & archaic western projectile points, knives, and darts. Some museum images taken by generous individuals are exhibited in my gallery, yet most of the artifacts are in private collections unless stated otherwise. There are references taken from literature with the purpose of aiding the serious collector and students of archaeology. I do buy and sell relics on the individual or collection basis where provenience is well known and is available to be documented. If you have something of elite caliber from the Pacific Northwest that you wish to share, feel free to contact me via email at roddiemichel@yahoo.com please keep in mind that although I possess the skill to do authentication on Columbia River and Great Basin artifacts I have absolutely no desire to do so now or in the future. That being said I do welcome the opportunity to tender a bid on your Western collection that you may wish to sell. If you do chose to offer me the privilege of owning museum quality material from your collection I promise that the utmost level of respect with be accorded to the artifact itself and its curation and that the piece will be made available to North American professional archaeologists pursuant to an artifact protection policy that will be posted on this website. You must seek permission before using my images or information posted here for any commercial purpose. 

Rodney L Michel, BS Petroleum Engineering, TBP

I like to do research and am very good at writing technical papers. Here are a few petroleum related technical papers that either I have written myself or as part of a team. As time permits I shall post papers on Well Testing, EOR/IOR, Decline Curve Analysis, Material Balance, Reservoir Simulation, Gas Processing Plant Design, Gas Gathering System Design, Compressor Sizing & Design, Risk Analysis, using VBA Code to write petroleum engineering functions in Excel, and much much more!

Nuclear vs. Petroleum Energy in terms of Resource Availability, Economics, Health Considerations, and Environmental Comparisons

Applications/Uses of Polyethylene Pipe

Subsurface Mapping and Interpretation Tools used in Exploration and Development of Petroleum Reservoirs

Petroleum Well Site and Land Reclamation when Contamination is Present

 

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