The Cassinelli-Perino Artifact Collection is on permanent display at the Carson Valley Museum and Cultural Center in Gardnerville, Nevada. The collection features an amazing display of American Indian Stone tools discovered in the Great Basin region of the United States. It includes a dazzling array of projectile points, arrowheads, gravers, scrapers and even crescents. The artifacts were identified using the Thomas Key developed by David Hurst Thomas.

The awl was probably used to pierce holes in hides or clothing in the process of sewing things together. It appears to have been made from the leg bone of a deer or antelope. Several similar bone awls are on display at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City, Nevada.