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Core2985

Green stone cut in grooves and faces.* Fide donor GTE: Green stone showing cutting grooves. 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.

Material
jadeite stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Core2982

Jade boulder cut in grooves and faces.* Fide donor GTE: Smaller jade boulder, dark green, cut and grooved. 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.

Material
jadeite stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Knife, Chipped Stone3126

44 flaked or chipped knives or scrapers of basalt (medium).* *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
basalt stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Point, Chipped Stone3071

13 crossed out to 11 arrow points stemmed with more than one notch.* 7 found & in new location. TAR, 5/3/1993. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Stone Tool2-11945

Partly made arrows, spear heads, broken pieces and chips.* 6 items found in archaeology division and are placed in 33/12/a18. *Information comes from the original accession ledger.

Material
basalt stone and slate stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Pestle, Stone2949

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.

Material
stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Paint Dish, Stone2855

Stone paint dish.* Fide donor GTE: Stone dish, boat shaped, dug up at Boston Bar. Very old. Its use unknown to the natives of today. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Knife, Chipped Stone2992

Sandstone knife for cutting jade.* Fide donor GTE: Sandstone saw or knife for cutting hard boulders. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
sandstone stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Scraper, Stone3025

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.

Material
stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Ornament, Ivory2925

Circular stone ornament.* Fide donor GTE: Stone ornament, ring shaped, ornamentally cut in notches around the edge, possibly as earring. 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.

Material
stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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