Jadeite Item Number: 2987 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Description
Jade boulder cut in grooves and faces.* Fide donor GTE: Long section of mottled jade from which two sections have been cut for implements. These jade boulders were sawed with knives of sandstone. 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.
Geographical Search Terms
British Columbia Canada North America Pacific Northwest Plateau
Item History
- Collected by George T. Emmons on September 18, 1913
What
- Name
- Jadeite
- Identification Number
- 2987
- Type of Item
- jadeite
- Material
- jadeite stone
- Manufacturing Technique
- worked
- Overall
- length 0.0 cm, width 0.0 cm, height 0.0 cm, diameter 0.0 cm, circumference 0.0 cm, weight 0.0 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
- 0
- Excavated By
- Emmons, George T.
- Excavation Date
- 01/01/1913
- Object Category
- Stone
- Object Sub Category
- Stone, Modified