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Broken stone implement. Locality: Taholah, Gray's Harbor County, WA. Cobble chopper unifacially flaked over one major surface and one end with bifacial flakes at other end. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
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.
Chipped leaf-shaped points (straight base). Remarks: Numbers of specimens in upper left hand corner -9- of ledger were entered by Frank Barnett who checked the material in 1939 working as a volunteer. Original ledger number was 10.* 1 projectile point stored in drawer 20D10, 5/7/90 RWA. One point (5678/55) returned from Grant County Public Utility District, Wanapum Dam Heritage Center on January 25, 1995. These materials were originally sent to Grant County PUD for future exchange (see Borrower's Agreement - 1966), but the exchange papers were never drawn up. Since this material was only loaned, not deaccessioned, the Grant County PUD returned it to the Burke. (L. Phillips, 1/26/95). Triangular, unstemmed, bifaces. All ten are made of chert. The previous computer entry indicated only 9 bifaces (6/95). *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Stone pipe.* Fide donor GTE: Stone pipe from north bank Fraser River just above Lytton. Pipes are in general use. The oldest type was evidently tubular, but those of a later period, and those used today, are of the ordinary type of bowl and stem. They are made of a steatite or some transparent soapstone, which in some the fire can be seen through the wall of the bowl. The stem is often ornamented with lead inlaid which in some cases is used to strengthen the stem as the material is brittle. A plain hollow wood stem is used. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Serrated leaf-shaped arrow heads used/found in vicinity of Goldendale. Remarks 5 traded for acc 3822. 3 traded CMNH. Number of specimens in upper left corner was recorded by Frank Barnett, who checked the material in 1939, working at the museum as a volunteer.* Previous counts indicate 112 tools, of which 18 could be located and examined. There were eight serrated lanceolate chert points, three serrated stemmed chert points, one serrated (broken) chert point, ofur lanceolate chert points, and one contracting base chert point. There was one obsidian point, which was stemmed. (6/95) NOTE: 2 were loaned to Washington State Parks and determined to be lost while on loan. R.Andrews 9/15/1995. NOTE: Thought to be lost. Returned by WSPRC 4/20/2006. This object was numbered 5701/1 at the time of return. L.Beaudoen 5/22/2006 *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Stone skin dresser.* *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Stone pecked hand hammer with flared oblong bottom and knobbed handle at top. Mottled gray in color. Fide Donor: Hammer belonged to donor's uncle, who moved to Seattle in 1940 and died in 1950. This uncle previously lived in Helena, Montana, where he had a cabin in the foothills. Vicky Wyatt, May 1989: Believes this piece to be from the southern Northwest Coast region; age unknown.
Stone hammer.* Fide donor GTE: Stone hand hammer from Boston Bar. 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.
Stone pestle. Locality is Puget Sound, Region, Wn. Remarks - Probably secured in trade by Indians on Columbia River. * Battered on both ends (6/95). *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Adze of dark green jade.* Fide donor GTE: Adze of a dark green jade. Dug up on an old village site on the Fraser River near Lytton, B.C. *Information is from the original accession ledger.