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Wedge (?). Locality: Quartermaster Harbor, Vashon Island. Grey color, sandstone-like texture. No site number recorded by Roberts. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Surface Depth= - OAS.
Rough piece of slate with one ground edge. Original catalogue description: "Shale frag. with two longitudinal edges ground to form abrupt slightly rounded profiles. One edge forms angle for two separate working surfaces (saw?)"
Box of partially worked stones. Locality: Columbia River near Ellsworth. Remarks: 1 traded to CMNH. Number of specimens: Ledger has 1 (48) written in pencil.* One edge of the tool has a bevelled edge. Three of four edges are broken edges. Opposite to bevelled edge is a drilled hole, half of which is missing because tool is broken. *Information comes from original accession ledger.
Surface Depth=0-6' #10266, 10267, 10268, 10269,10270,10271.
Tanning stone. Locality: Fisher, Washington. Remarks: Found on 1 acre of ground, now occupied by descents of a Yakima family and a Hudson's Bay man. The Yakima are supposed to have lived there long before Hudson's Bay days.* Flattened rectangle of stone, ground and polished on all faces. Found at Fisher, Clark County, WA. *Information comes from original accession ledger.
Chipped slate, tapers to (broken) point. According to accession data, this artifact was recovered from the Allyn IV site by Mr. Buding who lived on the property. Mr. Buding apparently donated this artifact to the Burke Musuem just after John Winterhouse surveyed the site. A description of the Allyn area can be found in, "A Report on An Archaeological Survey on Lower Puget Sound" by John Winterhouse, Jr., 1948 (See Burke Archives or UW Manuscripts and Archives Division). However, the Allyn IV site is not mentioned in his report. LSP, 1/23/96. From Ledger: Artifact, stone (shale) Collected By Fred Buding, received by John Winterhouse.
Long rounded cylindrical slate rod. Biconical hole drilled in one end, five incised lines around "b" axis and at five separate points along the "A" axis.
Small flat piece of slate with small groove in one end, other end is fractured.
Stone object (artifact?). Locality: Quartermaster Harbor, Vashon Island.* Grey, has organic material in crevices. No site number recorded by Roberts. *Information is from the original accession ledger.