Anonymous gift in memory of Dr. Harlow Brooks

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/121 , retrieved 1-27-2020: Whetstone made from jade. The entire surface of this tool has been ground and polished. The edges along both sides and at one end are beveled on both surfaces. At the other end a groove that has been cut into the surface of the whetstone holds a piece of braided sinew. The rest of the sinew line, which has broken off, has a blue bead attached near the end. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/62: Whetstones were used to sharpen the edges of ground stone and iron blades of cutting tools, such as adzes, kives and ulus. Jade was a preferred material for whetsones, but other fine-grained stones were also used.

FROM CARD: "BEAR'S JAW AND TUSKS."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 7 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hoonah Tlingit of Gau-da-can (i.e. Hoonah). List identifies this object as a "Bear's jaw ... used to give the fine edge to carving knives after they had undergone sharpening on? the whetstone. The edge is drawn on the tusks."

Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 6 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hutsnuwu Tlingit of Angoon. List identifies this object as a "Stone for sharpening carving knives ... used to give first edge to knives."

In a letter dated August 12, 1902, from Chilkat [Klukwan?], Alaska, and filed in Accession 39826, Emmons notes that he is going to make up a complete tool box "for the man" (i.e. presumably for a male figure/exhibit mannequin, as the "Chilkat family group" of exhibit mannequins at one time included a carver.) In papers in Accession 40238, this tool set is identified as a set of tools used by a Tlingit wood carver in making dug out canoes, masks, etc.. In a letter of Nov. 24, 1902 in the accession file Emmons says: "These thirty odd pieces are just about an average of what any man's box would contain. ... These pieces are generally from Chilkat, but represent the working tools of a man of any of the Northern Tlingit tribes."

Grindstone.* Fide donor GTE: Grindstone of a coarse, siliceaus sandstone. The two flatten faces concave. the edges convex, supposed to have been used for working down stone celts and chisels by rubbing with water. Found on the surface of the sand hill at the junction of the Thompson with the Fraser. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Grindstone.* Fide donor GTE: Portion of a grindstone of a fine silicious sandstone, slightly concave face. It is very conclusively established that jade and other fine grained celts were worked down and sharpened upon these stones, which are found about old living and camping sites together with the sandstone saws and partly cut boulders, and an examination of jade and other celts shows almost invariably a corresponding convex side and cutting surface. These grindstones from their brittleness are seldom found in large slabs, but more in broken sections which are often smoothed on both flattened faces and sometimes along the edges. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Broken whetstone of brownish sandstone. Locality: Princess Louise Inlet on Jervis Inlet, B.C.* *Information is from the original accession ledger.