Bone split down center and shaped/carved to a chisel point . J. Stockdill 10/21/2009

Bone chisel with one end tapering into a two-sided point. The other end tapers into a sharper point. There is some black discoloration present on the bone.

Original CatalogNotes & References: Artifact located 7-30-03 and cataloged by Burke Museum staff. Artifact was relabeled as "2B". S. Denton (Burke Museum)Dates Range: Mark/Pattern: Modern (less than 50 years old):

Bone chisel. Original catalogue description: "Ground mammal bone point. Elliptical X-S with dorso-ventral beveling mostly on one side near tip to form spatulate screwdriver like tip. Base thinned by grinding and unilaterally broken off at right angles to long axis." Original catalogue association: "0.8' N of N wall 0.5' W of W wall"

Bone chisel. Original catalogue description: "Ground mammal bone point fragment. Dorso-ventral beveling to form excurvate screw driver like tip. Elliptical X-S" Original catalogue remarks:

"Small adz or chisel. the bit of this specimen is beveled on one side only. (fig. 5, j). Cultural Component II Square 9L3 North 1'5" East 2'4" Datum Depth 47"." From The Washington Archaeologist. 1962 Vol. VI, No. 2.

"Bone chisel or wedge fragment (Fig 5, g). Cultural Component II Square 5R2 North 3'4" East 1'8" Eatum Depth 19". From The Washington Archaeologist. 1962 Vol. VI, No. 2.

Chisels of basalt.* *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Jade celt or chisel.* Fide donor GTE: Jade chisel, mottled green. Showeing cutting grooves. Jade, serpentine and other tough, fine grained stones were used for making celts, chisels and adzes for all wood working and for cutting and dressing skins. Boulders cut in two, smoothed on one surface and grooved, are found on old village sites and camping places. These are most always of greenstone, of jade and serpentine. And when they occur in many flat worked pieces of a coarse silicious sandstone with one or more beveled edges which just fit the deeper grooves in the boulders which would seem to indicate very clearly that these were the knives or saws by means of which the boulders were cut in convenient sized pieces to be worked on: the slightly concave grindstones into tools. The people of the present day have little or no knowledge of this art or manufacture. The grooves show a convex a flat or a concave goove along the bottom but more often is the convex surface apparent. Some of the tools thus cut are finished throughout their length while others are rough splinters merely brought to a cutting edge. In most of the celts and chisels, one or more grooves are plainly visible where the section was cut from the stock piece. Greenstone was universally used for cutting tools and in the following catalogued specimens (2882-2898) the term jade is used to describe those that from their weight and hardness would appear to be of that mineral, although a chemical analysis would be necessary to determine their material structure. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Bone chisel section of leg bone of deer.* Fide donor GTE: Chisel of a section of leg bone of deer. These three (2849, 2850, 2851) chisels were dug up near Lytton. *Information is from the original accession ledger.