Grinding Stone Item Number: 2979 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Description
Grindstone.* Fide donor GTE: Portion of a grindstone of a fine silicious sandstone, slightly concave face. It is very conclusively established that jade and other fine grained celts were worked down and sharpened upon these stones, which are found about old living and camping sites together with the sandstone saws and partly cut boulders, and an examination of jade and other celts shows almost invariably a corresponding convex side and cutting surface. These grindstones from their brittleness are seldom found in large slabs, but more in broken sections which are often smoothed on both flattened faces and sometimes along the edges. Slab is about 3 cm thick, roughly triangular in plan view. Center area of one side is smoother than areas near edges; other side shows signs of weathering. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Geographical Search Terms
British Columbia Canada North America Pacific Northwest Plateau
Item History
- Collected by George T. Emmons on September 18, 1913
What
- Name
- Grinding Stone
- Identification Number
- 2979
- Type of Item
- grinding stone
- Material
- stone
- Manufacturing Technique
- ground
- Overall
- length 27.0 cm, width 22.0 cm, height 0.0 cm, diameter 0.0 cm, circumference 0.0 cm, weight 3450.0 g
Who
- Field Collector
- George T. Emmons
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
When
- Collection Date
- on September 18, 1913
Other
- Accession Number
- 870
- Collection
- Burke Museum Archaeology Collection
- Object Count
- 1
- Object Category
- Stone
- Object Sub Category
- Stone, Ground