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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.
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.
Copper ornament, pendant.* Fide donor GTE: Ornament of copper. Numerous small ornaments of stone, some rudely carved, others simply shaped, with a hole through one end, of elk, bear and other teeth, of bits of copper, are found more particularly in graves. These were probably used as pendants or attached to articles of dress. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Sandstone knife for cutting jade.* Fide donor GTE: Sandstone saw or knife for cutting hard boulders. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Section of chisel of green and red jade.* Fide donor GTE: Celt, or more probably a section of a chisel, showing a green and red color, found on Vancouver Island, near Victoria, B.C. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Celt, blackish with green and red marks. Fide donor GTE: Celt, blackish with deep green and reddish markings, from Mayne Island, B.C. 1 7/8"x2"x.5". *Information is from the original accession ledger.
63 crossed out to 53 arrow points, stemmed, shouldered but not barbed.* KMB 10/10/1986: only 4 points were found. 48 Pieces found by TAR 5/11/1993. *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.