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Jade adz blade or chisel. Locality: Swinomish Indian Reservation, La Connor, WA.* *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Indian hand hammer of granite. Locality: Skagit County, WA.* *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Fragment tip of stone war club. Locality: Taholah, Gray's Harbor Co.. WA.* Flattened ovoid cobble broken transversly with battering marks at broken edge and one place on side edge. *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.
Hand hammer of stone. Locality: Taholah, Gray's Harbor County, Washington. Remarks: Shaped from beach pebble.* Pestle like pounding tool. Elongate natural pebble with evidence of battering at widest end. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
White stone rounded at one end and angled at other end which has been ground to a smooth surface. Rounded bottom surface is 9.5 cm and top surface is 5 cm with angled, smooth end. Rounded end has a 2.5 cm x 4 cm reddish-brown area. It appears to be part of stone. Used with mortar to crush and grind seeds and corn.
Stone adze.* Accn File: No additonal information about object in accn file. D. Hogerhuis, 2/10/1993. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Beach pebble with two bands of red ochre painted. Locality: Princess Louise Inlet on Jervis Inlet, B.C. Remarks: Found at base of rock two miles north on east shore of Jarvis Inlet, B.C. Probably used in ceremony of getting guardian spirit.* *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Stone maul. Locality: Issaquah, Wash.* Collection received 1/3/1910 from Issaquah, WA and collected by C.M. Sheafe.** Flat-top maul with a diamond cut sample (removed by unknown person, possibly for analysis) taken from the base. Base is 40% chipped and edge-battered. *Information is from the original accession ledger. **Information is from original catalog ledger.
Hand axe or blade made of white, fine grained stone. Axe is roughly flat on one side and triangular in cross section. One end is slightly more pointed than the other. Edges are flaked. Stone is white with brownish tinge. Axe is from Maryhill Museum area, Klickitat County, Washington.