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Point, Chipped Stone1-976

Unstemmed chalcedony projectile point. Locality: Univ. of Wash. campus.* Triangular, gray, chert point; slightly concave base. LWA 1-16-96 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.

Material
chert stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Knife, Chipped Stone2854

Sandstone knife.* Fide donor GTE: Portion of a very coarse sandstone knife used for sawing jade, serpentine and other stone boulders to procure sections for making celts and chisels. Found on the surface of the sand hill across the Thompson from Lytton. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
sandstone stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Hammerstone2960

Stone hammer.* Fide donor GTE: Stone hand hammer of green stone finely worked and smoothed. 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.

Material
stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Maul, Stone2959

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.

Material
stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Adze Blade, Stone2482

Broken celt of sea-green, translucent jade.* Fide donor GTE: Celt, a section of the cutting end broken, from Mayne Island, B.C. A sea green color, translucent, splintry and laminated in structure which has evidently caused its fracture. 1.25"x1 7/8"x.5". *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
jadeite stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Scraper, Stone2-164

Scraper of granitic schist. Locality: Sanpoil Indians, Colville, Wash. Identified by Verne F. Ray and G.E. Goodspeed. Remarks: From shell mound at naa'qu, on Columbia River.* *Information comes from the original accession ledger.

Material
granite stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Core2984

Jade boulder cut in grooves and faces.* Fide donor GTE: Large jade boulder from which a section has been cut and two shallow grooves have been commenced. 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. Remarks: Jade or nephrite cobble with sections removed; additional sawmark on adjacent surface, parallel to competed cuts. [See Artifacts of the Northwest, page 43, by Hilary Stewart 1981].Yellow tape adhered to bottom. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
jadeite stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Adze Blade, Stone1990-41/1

Adze blade of greenstone (possibly nephrite). Broken near haft end, flared and sharpened at blade end. Fide donor: Collected by donor's cousin, Rena McFadden Jacobsen Hylak, from Forest, WA., (outside Chehalis, near river confluence on her farm), ca. 1910-1940.

Material
nephrite stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Club, Stone1-11208

Stone club. Locality: Snoqualimi. Identified by Erna Gunther.* Zoomorphic representation of a fish. Bifurcated base (tail fins) is chipped. *Information comes from original accession ledger.

Material
stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Whetstone7786

Broken whetstone of brownish sandstone. Locality: Princess Louise Inlet on Jervis Inlet, B.C.* *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
sandstone stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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