Carll H. de Silver Fund

Carll H. de Silver Fund

Disk shaped bead with uniform center hole. C.Shiung 12/08/2003.

Adze blade is made out of jadite and is ground. It has a unifacially bevelled and straight bit. (S.Iles 3/30/2004)

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.

Celt of dark greenish black jade, much weathered.* Fide donor GTE: Celt of a dark greenish black color much weathered and roughened which was found with some obsidian arrow-heads of the earliest type at a considerable depth on Mayne Island, B.C. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Celt of greenish gray jade.* Fide donor GTE: Celt of a greenish grey color of a laminated structure. Found near Victoria on Vancouver Island. It is characterized by the completeness of its finish and its shape is suggestive of having been mounted in a section of bone or horn. 2"x1.75"x3/8". *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.

Jade boulder cut in grooves and faces.* Fide donor GTE: Long section of mottled jade from which two sections have been cut for implements. These jade boulders were sawed with knives of sandstone. Boulders large and small of jade serpentine and other hard fine grained, tough material, generally greenish in color, are found upon old village sites and camping grounds, grooved on one or both surfaces, cut in two, or cut in a number of faces, with grooves between, and thin broken ridges. These latter indicate where sections were sawed off with the coarse silicious sandstone saws or knives in order to obtain suitable pieces for chisels, celts and adzes. *Information is from the original accession ledger.