Abrader Item Number: 2021.O.002:327 from the Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre
Description
Potentially a medium sized fine-grained slab abrader. The belonging is dark grey with some quartz veining, and an overall fine grain. The dorsal surface has a light textured feel, and a flat surface. The ventral face has been worked to expose a flat and very smooth surface, the colour of the exposed surface is a smooth black with white/brown quartz veining, and very little grainage. The ventral face has three impact sites, with the flat edge at the distal end, there's one impact site with a negative bulb of percussion at the top left corner, one near the top right mesial portion, and one with a prominent bulb bottom left mesial corner.
Provenance
No provenance - Collected from Fraser Valley/Vancouver Island/Northwest Coast.
Item History
- Collected by Ken Pugh
What
- Name
- Abrader
- Identification Number
- 2021.O.002:327
- Type of Item
- abrader
- Material
- basalt with quartz veining
- Overall
- length 11.296 cm, width 6.161 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