Knife Item Number: 2021.O.002:015 from the Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre

Description

A medium sized slate knife, potentially a semi-crescent scraper. The belonging is a medium grey with a fine grain, and a small patch of light grey smooth cortex. A unifacially bevelled edge is present on the proximal end' blade on the dorsal face, on the opposite side of the cortex patch. On the left mesial portion there's a semi-thick flat spine. There's two intact impact sites on the distal end, both with their own bulbs. The ventral face has a lightly convexed surface near the middle, with a gentle slope near the unifacially bevelled blade edge.

Provenance

No provenance - Collected from Fraser Valley/Vancouver Island/Northwest Coast.

Item History

What

Name
Knife
Identification Number
2021.O.002:015
Type of Item
knife
Material
slate
Overall
length 7.448 cm, width 4.55 cm

Who

Field Collector
Ken Pugh

Where

Holding Institution
Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre
Collected in
“Unknown” ?

Other

Homeloc
Sto:lo Material Culture Repository
Site
Fraser Valley/Vancouver Island/Northwest