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Utilized Flake1-11127

Chip. Locality: Quartermaster Harbor, Vashon Island, Wash. Remarks: Site 11.* Brown, banded chert. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Material
chert stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Adze, StoneW3/10/746

Rectangular cobble with one end fragmented and the other bifacialy flaked. All sides ground smooth.

Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Scraper, Stone3026

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.

Material
stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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HammerstoneW1/10/2678

Light to dark brown oval cobble, rounded edges with battering on both ends, top and bottom.

Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Utilized Flake45KT4/711

Brown chert, retouched

Material
chert stone and pebble
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Scraper, StoneW3/20/5483

Rectangular. Brown translucent chert with white inclusions.

Material
chert stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Point, Chipped Stone1966-100/L-294

triangular and black; base gone

Material
obsidian stone and pebble
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Point, Biface1989-57/35-A-95

Black obsidian biface that is broken on one side. One flake is broken off in the bag. K. Peterson 2/3/99

Material
obsidian stone
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Point, Chipped Stone45KT4/548

Black chert, tip broken.

Material
chert stone and pebble
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Jew's Harp, Metal1966-86/285

Surface Depth: 2.0-3.0 Some brown cloth sticking on harp.

Material
metal
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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