Ground stone chisel found in collection. Northwest Coast.

Small chisel of dark green jade.* Fide donor GTE: Small chisel which, from its shape and size, would seem to have been lashed to a handle of bone or wood. Of a darker green color. One of the narrow edges shows a cutting groove where it has been sawed from the stock piece. From Cowitchen, B.C. 1 1/8"x5/8"x1/8". *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Chisel of mottled black and green jade. Mouth of Thompson River, near Lytton.* Fide donor GTE: Chisel of a mottled and veined black and green jade dug up on the site of an old burying ground, at the mouth of the Thompson River where it joins the Fraser River, B.C. It is worked on its entire surface. It shows portions of slight cutting faces on the faces along two edges. *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.

Jade celt or chisel.* Fide donor GTE: Jade chisel green, showing 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.

Chisel of mottled green and black.* Fide donor GTE: Chisel of a mottled green and black from Salt Spring Island off the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, B.C. One of the more narrow edges shows two cutting grooves and the broken ridge between. Such an implement would have been inserted in the end of a handle of horn, bone or wood. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Chisel of deer horn. Locality: Saddlebag Island, near Anacortes, WA.* *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Upper part of chisel of dark green.* Fide donor GTE: Upper part of a chisel of a dark mottled green. Dug up near Lytton, B.C. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

"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.