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Jade boulder cut in grooves and faces.* Fide donor GTE: Long section of mottled jade from which two sections have been cut for implements. These jade boulders were sawed with knives of sandstone. Boulders large and small of jade serpentine and other hard fine grained, tough material, generally greenish in color, are found upon old village sites and camping grounds, grooved on one or both surfaces, cut in two, or cut in a number of faces, with grooves between, and thin broken ridges. These latter indicate where sections were sawed off with the coarse silicious sandstone saws or knives in order to obtain suitable pieces for chisels, celts and adzes. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Broken stone with depression. Locality: Taholah, Gray's Harbor Co., WA.* Cobble with circular depression pecked into one major surface. Both ends broken. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Grooved stone sinker. Locality: Taholah, Gray's Harbor Co., WA.* Ovoid cobble with groove pecked longitudinally through major surfaces and ends. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Celt of whitish and blackish green jade. Near Lytton, B.C.* Fide donor GTE: Celt or adze of whitish green interspersed with blackish green lines. It was dug up near Lytton, B.C. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
1 stone war club. ACCN: 1977-76/1. Grandfather, David Thompson, homesteaded a quarter section near North Bend area in 1880's. Found when clearing land at foot of Mt. Si., North Bend area.
Ceremonial mortar (canoe shaped).* Oval. Flattened knobs on sides. Carved diagonal ribs down sides. Weighs over 5000 grams. (6/95). *Information is from the original accession ledger.
3 parts; glued together; one end zoomorphic; other end phallic; appears to be a "slave killer" club.
A red, chert, corner-notched. T. Curtis-Flaherty, 1/27/98
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.
Stone hammer.* Fide donor GTE: Stone hand hammer. 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.