Tool

Item number 1933.568 from the MAA: University of Cambridge.

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Description

The catalogue card gives a description of the tool taken from the collector, George T.Emmons. Deep green mottled and flaked in lighter green nephrite implement, worked throughout its length. It shows grooves where cut from the stock boulder the length of each narrow face, and shallow broad grooves on the face. it is discoloured from weathering on one face. It is double ?bitted or sharpened at each end .; Good

Context

The collector noted the object was found, by natives...on an old living site at the mouth of Steen Creek, where it joins the Fraser River about 8 miles above Lytton, British Columbia. The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.; The object description given by Emmons is complimented by addition information on use. The object was said by the natives to have been a war implement. Such long worked pieces were also held as property and not used but exchanged or displayed at ceremonies, but when used as weapons were fitted and lashed to a short handle. Collected by: Emmons.Commander.G.T