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Wooden spoon.* Fide donor GTE: Very old spoon of wood dug up near Lytton. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Stone hand hammer.* Fide donor GTE: White quartz hand hammer the head carved to represent the head of a mountain sheep. 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.
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.
Beaver tooth for chipping arrow points.* Fide donor GTE: Beaver tooth for fine notching arrow points. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Stone pestle.* Fide donor GTE: Stone pestle used in conjunction with the stone mortar in the preparation of food products. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Bone awl.* Fide donor GTE: Bone awl for sewing and basket weaving, dug up at Lytton. From old graves and camping places in the sand, bone tools of all kinds are dug up: awls for sewing and basket weaving, points for fish spears, tool handles and incised pieces, as well as horn implements as wedges, daggers, etc. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Section of very pale jade, green veining. Stein Creek above Lytton, B.C.* Fide donor GTE: Rough section of a very pale jade with bright green veining showing one cut face. From an old village site on or near the Fraser River above Stein Creek called Stein, B.C. *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.
Bone point for fish spear.8 Fide donor GTE: Bone point for primitive fish spear. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Salmon gaff hook.* Fide donor GTE: Salmon gaff of iron fitted on a hollow cone and covered with spruce gum. In use it was fitted (hand tight) over the pointed end of a long sapling shaft and secured to it a short distance from the end by means of the attached cord. *Information is from the original accession ledger.