Just a Rock, or a Native American Stone?

There is a beach on Whidbey Island where there are millions of rocks, rather a soft type; and they roll in the surf and get rounded into all sorts of interesting shapes, not just round or oval as they would if a harder kind of rock. It is lots of fun to look them over - look, a bear! Look, a Madonna! Here's a face! And a fish!
I've saved a few just because they look so cool.

 

Rocks..... Washington state carnelian

 

Wow, did you collect the carnelian rocks yourself? Do you use them in jewelry?

 

Rock collecting was a family pastime for years. Garnets,sapphires,fossils in Virginia.Quart crystals in Arkansas,geodes in Iowa,Lake Superior agates in Minnesota,Amethyst crystals in Canada,agates,petrified wood,Thunder Eggs ,sunstone,obsidian in Oregon,sapphires in Montana.I have used stone in jewelry in the past,now I just play with metal at times.

 

What a treasure trove, and such a fun family pastime.

 

What kind of rock is this?? by Shtp103 posted Aug 2, 2021 at 9:17 PM

Hey, I’m new to the site, so I’m not sure where to or even how to post a new thread… but I have a rock that I’ve found in a river near where I live. Not sure what kind of rock it is, but I’m hoping that maybe someone on here can give me a little info on it.

 

Wow that looks like some kind of strange skeletal remains. It's very gnarly and interesting.

You should at least give measurements and a photo of the other side and probably from several other different angles.

 

@i need help What category do you think this should go in?

 

That looks like natural weathering. Sometimes these are called Hag Stones. https://yesdirt.com/hag-stones/

 

Here's an image search of hagstones if anybody else besides me wants to look at a bazillion of them.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hag+stones&iax=images&ia=images

@smallaxe , great website you linked to, I bookmarked it.

 

WHO knew there were SO MANY!!!!!!!!!!! Someone once told me the holes in the stones were from them getting wedged in a spot where water was able to run or drip for eons to form the holes.......I honestly dunno, but it at least sounds partially plausible!! I was thinking that @Shtp103's 'rock' might possibly look like some fossilized bone....but who's or what kind, haven't a clue!!!