Spear head of slate (ground edges). Locality: Swinomish Indian Reservation, La Connor, WA.* *Information is from the original accession ledger.

North America Northwest Coast Pacific Northwest Western United States

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.

Subgroup: Rock Creek, Klickitat County Photographer: Nancy Morningstar Tabular, bevelled (6/95).

Small stone animal figure, carved from soft soapstone. Animal has carved ears with ear holes, eyes, nostrils, and open mouth. Body has bent forelimbs with feet, 6 ribs, backbone, and rudimentary hindlimbs which are cut off; the bottom of the sculpture is very flat (and might have been sawn). It was suggested by the donor that it had come from a ceremonial pipe.(?) Skeletal carving style (showing backbone and ribs) places it with other known stone sculpture from the same location (some dates to 1500 B.C.) RKW. Sculpture is scratched, nicked and gouged: Left ribcage, right ribcage, left shoulder and forearm, lower jaw. - S. Hood 3/21/2006 Fide donor: found by a family member on a farm on Avon Allen Road, 3 miles north of Burlington, WA prior to 1918 (ca. 1910).

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.

Columbia R. area, Klickitat County Fumigated on: 00OCT1980

Celt of mottled greenish gray jade.* Fide donor GTE: Celt of a mottled greenish grey color, somewhat weathered. Found on Vancouver Island near Victoria. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Grindstone.* Fide donor GTE: Grindstone of a coarse, siliceaus sandstone. The two flatten faces concave. the edges convex, supposed to have been used for working down stone celts and chisels by rubbing with water. Found on the surface of the sand hill at the junction of the Thompson with the Fraser. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Large knife of basalt.* *Information is from the original accession ledger.