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Hammerstone2965

Stone hammer.* Fide donor GTE: Stone hand hammer. The most common stone implement found about Lytton, either dug up on old village sites or preserved by the present generation, is the hand hammer or pestle. It is made from a variety of fine-grained rocks, generally of convenient size and shaped boulders that require the least amount of labor to bring them to the required shape. Such pieces are pecked into shape, having a heavy base sometimes deep, the sides meeting the bottom at right angles, and again greatly expanded. The body of the hammer where it is grasped by the hand is generally smaller than the expanded head which is variously shaped with a conoidal knot or contracted to a long conical point. Although the rudest specimens taper gradually from the base to the rounded head. The rudest specimens are simply pecked into shape, while the finer ones, after shaping, are beautifully ground or smoothed. In several instances among those here described, the heads are given the forms of animal heads. These hand hammers were used for a variety of purposes and the worn surfaces readily indicate their use. Those used as hand mashers for crushing roots, nuts, berries, etc. show smooth flattened or slightly convex bases, while those used as hammers for driving wedges, stakes, etc., show a well worn concave base and offer flattened and worn sides of the base. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Adze Blade, Stone2487

Celt of greenish gray jade.* Fide donor GTE: Celt of a greenish grey color of a laminated structure. Found near Victoria on Vancouver Island. It is characterized by the completeness of its finish and its shape is suggestive of having been mounted in a section of bone or horn. 2"x1.75"x3/8". *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
jadeite stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Core2590

Stock piece of bluish gray. Across from and above Lytton, B.C.* Fide donor GTE: The core of a stock piece of a bluish grey color showing three cutting faces and one face with grooves and a broken ridge from which a section has been wedged off. Found on an old village site near a small creek emptying into the Fraser across and above Lytton, B.C. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Adze Blade, Stone3090

Jade adze blade.* "Skinning knife used by Indians."** No additional information. D. Hogerhuis, 2/10/1993. A ground and polished nephrite adze blade labeled "Maple Valley, King Co., Wa. A.J. Bickers." J.Burgett 1/18/95. *Information is from the original accession ledger. **Information is from the accession file.

Material
nephrite stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Knife, Chipped Stone2990

Sandstone knife for cutting jade.* Fide donor GTE: Sandstone saw or knife for cutting hard boulders. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
sandstone stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Knife, Chipped Stone2989

Sandstone knife for cutting jade.* Fide donor GTE: Sandstone saw or knife for cutting hard boulders. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
sandstone stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Core2591

Stock piece of white and green. Across from and above Lytton, B.C.* Fide donor GTE: Stock piece which shows evidence of having been worn by water. It is of a whitish color showing veins of bright green. It was found on an old living site on the north bank of the Fraser River across and a few miles above Lytton. There are cutting grooves and a broken ridge running lengthwise on two faces where two sections have been cut off for implements. Light green with smooth weathered exterior; saw marks run near length of object: smooth cut scars with rough seam down middle. Beginning of cut present (long groove), running parallel to completed cuts. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
boulder stone and nephrite stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Scraper, Stone3005

Stone skin dresser or scraper.* Fide donor GTE: Stone skin dresser. Skin scrapers are found in great abundance about old camps and former living places. They are of various sizes and material. They were of the chipped basalt used for arrow and spear blades; chipped to convenient shape, or of sections of quartzite pebbles split along one face and chipped as required. Some of these were used as hand implements for scraping or softening the skin of the animals of the country, for articles of clothing, while others likewise used were set in the split end of short wood handles and lashed securely by means of hide, root or sinew. They are still used. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Chisel, Stone2555

Chisel of mottled black and green jade. Mouth of Thompson River, near Lytton.* Fide donor GTE: Chisel of a mottled and veined black and green jade dug up on the site of an old burying ground, at the mouth of the Thompson River where it joins the Fraser River, B.C. It is worked on its entire surface. It shows portions of slight cutting faces on the faces along two edges. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
jadeite stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Maul, Stone2-283

Stone club head. Locality: Okanagan Indians, Colville Res., Wash. Remarks: Found one mile south of Omak, Washington.* *Information comes from the original accession ledger.

Material
stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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