ground serpentine chisel, green-brown

Model of ice chisel of light wood with bone chisel at the other end.

FROM CARD: "DEER HORN. *DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #605."

Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/88 , retrieved 12-30-2019: Gouge with a wood handle and an iron tip. The butt of the handle has been rounded for ease of use. Two incised lines encircle the handle. The tip has been made from a legth of iron that has been folded over and sharpened at one end. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/25: Gouges were used for boring holes into wood, antler, bone and ivory. Traditional Inuvialuit gouges had stone tips. Metal gouges obtained through trade or made from trade materials replaced stone gouges in the fur trade era.

Chisel is made from mammal bone and is ground. Bag stated: "Lopez Island, Wash," "from tip of sand spit off Fisherman's Bay," "where gill-netters used to set." (S. Iles 5/5/2004)

Listed on page 48 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".

Provenience note: many objects in the Chirouse collection were catalogued as Duwamish, however that really only seems to definitively apply to Catalogue No. 130965. Accession record indicates that the collection is the "handiwork of the Snohomish, Swinomish, Lummi, Muckleshoot and Etakmur Indians on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington Territory".From card, for E131001-0 and E131001-1: "Fibrolite? & slate."

Provenience note: many objects in the Chirouse collection were catalogued as Duwamish, however that really only seems to definitively apply to Catalogue No. 130965. Accession record indicates that the collection is the "handiwork of the Snohomish, Swinomish, Lummi, Muckleshoot and Etakmur Indians on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington Territory".

Provenience note: many objects in the Chirouse collection were catalogued as Duwamish, however that really only seems to definitively apply to Catalogue No. 130965. Accession record indicates that the collection is the "handiwork of the Snohomish, Swinomish, Lummi, Muckleshoot and Etakmur Indians on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington Territory".From card, for E131001-0 and E131001-1: "Fibrolite? & slate."