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Item number 2985 from the The Burke: University of Washington.
Item number 2985 from the The Burke: University of Washington.
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Green stone cut in grooves and faces.* Fide donor GTE: Green stone showing cutting grooves. Boulders large and small of jade serpentine and other hard fine grained, tough material, generally greenish in color, are found upon old village sites and camping grounds, grooved on one or both surfaces, cut in two, or cut in a number of faces, with grooves between, and thin broken ridges. These latter indicate where sections were sawed off with the coarse silicious sandstone saws or knives in order to obtain suitable pieces for chisels, celts and adzes. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
British Columbia Canada North America Pacific Northwest Plateau
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British Columbia Canada North America Pacific Northwest Plateau
Green stone cut in grooves and faces.* Fide donor GTE: Green stone showing cutting grooves. Boulders large and small of jade serpentine and other hard fine grained, tough material, generally greenish in color, are found upon old village sites and camping grounds, grooved on one or both surfaces, cut in two, or cut in a number of faces, with grooves between, and thin broken ridges. These latter indicate where sections were sawed off with the coarse silicious sandstone saws or knives in order to obtain suitable pieces for chisels, celts and adzes. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
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