Large stone adze from Fort St. James.* From Fort St. James. This was dug up by the natives in plowing. They say that none of their people know who made it as it seems to have been lost and then recovered, and not handed down in families. $2.00.** *Information is from the original accession ledger. **From accession file.

Soapstone artifact, blockshaped piece with square groove. Locality: Saturna Is., Gulf Is. off S.E. coast of Vancouver Is. Remarks: Steatite.* *Information comes from 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.

Stone dish.* Fide donor GTE: Large, dish of stone of a granite character of stone. It would appear to have been a natural flattened boulder that required little labor to convert it into a dish. The shallow hollow has been pecked out. Said to have been used for household purposes in mashing roots, berries and nuts for food purposes by means of a stone pestle. Object is disc-shaped, with small (approximately 10 cm in diameter) distinct impression. Disc periphery has signs of weathering, battering. Remarks: Approx. 1 inch depression in center of stone. Round in shape with fracture down the side that has been glued/repaired. This stone has been chipped and broken along the perimeter. Paint marks and slight abrasions present. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Adze. Locality: Washington, Whatcom Co. Accn: Locality of Brennan, WA.* *Information comes from original accession ledger.

Stone pestle.* NOTE: determined to be lost while on loan- R. Andrews 9/18/1995. Returned by Cindy Farr: WSPRC Jan. 2006 *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Stone hammer.* Lateral groove is deep and square, incised longitudinally. The ends have been battered/pecked and this object may have been hafted (6/95). *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Large hand axe made of smooth, fine grained buff colored stone (chert?). Axe is oval-shaped with straight base. Edges are flaked and sides are relatively flat. According to donor, axe was collected from Maryhill Museum area, Klickitat County, Washington.

Jade celt or chisel.* Fide donor GTE: Jade chisel green, showing cutting grooves. Jade, serpentine and other tough, fine grained stones were used for making celts, chisels and adzes for all wood working and for cutting and dressing skins. Boulders cut in two, smoothed on one surface and grooved, are found on old village sites and camping places. These are most always of greenstone, of jade and serpentine. And when they occur in many flat worked pieces of a coarse silicious sandstone with one or more beveled edges which just fit the deeper grooves in the boulders which would seem to indicate very clearly that these were the knives or saws by means of which the boulders were cut in convenient sized pieces to be worked on: the slightly concave grindstones into tools. The people of the present day have little or no knowledge of this art or manufacture. The grooves show a convex a flat or a concave goove along the bottom but more often is the convex surface apparent. Some of the tools thus cut are finished throughout their length while others are rough splinters merely brought to a cutting edge. In most of the celts and chisels, one or more grooves are plainly visible where the section was cut from the stock piece. Greenstone was universally used for cutting tools and in the following catalogued specimens (2882-2898) the term jade is used to describe those that from their weight and hardness would appear to be of that mineral, although a chemical analysis would be necessary to determine their material structure. *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.