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Eight bird and mammal bone fragments, three of which are burned. One piece of mudstone and one piece of tuff. D. Bradley 01/25/99
REF: R.S. Kidd,"The Alderdale Archaeological Project," Dept. of Anthropology, UW, 1965.
Thick irregular gray flake with unifacial flaking along one edge.
Black obsidian biface. D. Bradley 02/05/99
Awl point: ground, broken, and root-etched. D. Bradley 01/25/99
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.
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.
Arrow point. Locality: Quartermaster Harbor, Vashon Island, Wash. Remarks: Site 11.* Green color. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Arrow head. Locality: Quartermaster Harbor, Vashon Island, Wash. Remarks: Site 11.* Asymmetrical. *Information is from the original accession ledger.
Finely crafted point tip.