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Stock piece of water worn boulder.* Fide donor GTE: Stock piece, a water worn boulder. Dug up near Lytton B.C. On one face it shows where four sections have been sawed and wedged off for the making of implements. Jade or nephrite boulder with sections removed. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Led; Jade adze head (old). Remarks: Very fine specimen. Accn File: No additional information about object in accn file. D. Hogerhuis, 2/10/1993.
Short stemmed jasper projectile point. Locality: Univ. of Wash. campus.* One red, chert, basal-notched, stemmed point. LWA 1-18-96 Note on box containing artifacts: "Mr. Daugherty. These arrow heads were found on the university campus in 1908 when they were clearing for the A of P Exposition. Found by Mattie Lavaque [born?] in 1876 at what is now Normandy Park. Mattie L. Smith, 1348 N. Marion St., Olympia, WA." *This information comes from the original accession ledger.
Broken pipestem (tubular). Locality: Swinomish Indian Reservation. Remarks: Found in Geo. Cagey's garden.* *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Net or fish-line sinker of stone. Locality: Taholah, Gray's Harbor County, WA.* Grooved and battered cobble. In center of pecked groove on one surface is a circular depression. Both ends are pecked. *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.
Stone paint cup.* Round, both sides flat with shallow depressions. Fifteen grooves pecked latitudinally around the sides of the stone. Painted (ochre) in the pecked areas and in one depression. Other depression has ochre ground into it (6/95). *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Dark grey lanceolate chert point broken near base. Two pieces glued together. This point was on loan to John L. Fagan from 2/3/2005 to 3/18/2005 in order to prepare a paper for presentation at the 58th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference in Spokane, WA. Fagan analyzed the point to determine manufacture, raw material type, and technological attributes. He concluded that the artifact appears to be the point of a thrusting spear, which broke on impact with an animal. He speculates that the wounded animal subsequently wandered into the deep recesses of a lava tube cave in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, where the point was found. This analysis is described in Fagan's report entitled, "Technological Analysis of a Point from Spearpoint Cave, a Lava Tube on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Skamania County, Washington." A copy of this March 2005 report can be found in the object's accession file.
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.
Celt of brownish green jade.* Fide donor GTE: Celt of a brownish green color, from Mayne Island, B.C. 2"x1 5/8"x.5". *Information is from the original accession ledger.