stone bowl fragment; brown; chip BR

river cobble with ground depression (7 cm dia, 2 cm deep) ground in the top of river cobble.

Adze sealed inside a plastic bag; bag is secured shut with a paper manufacturer's label stapled over the opening. Adze has a long cylindrical shaft with an acute-angled haft at the end. Smooth stone, wedge-shaped blade inserted into notch at end of haft; secured in notch with three bands of braided rattan and resin(?). Adze is undecorated. Blue card inserted into bag, behind adze, with images of person using an adze, and one of an adze by itself; paragraph of text describes materials, and how it was made.

The stone is granite.

The stone is granite.

Inkstone carved from a single piece of speckled yellow and brown stone. Object is rectangular, with four low square feet carved on each bottom corner. Top front has a round shallow well, behind which lay two lions(?), with their bodies facing away from well, heads turned to look back over their shoulders. A second hollow has been carved between their tails. Remnants of decorative lines surround the inkwell area, and nearly invisible incised designs decorate all four edges.

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

grey; might have been burned; possible rust stains; battered in a few parts on edges

Squared in cross-section below hand grip; possible red ochre stains; pecked; has cloth label on it