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.

3 (2) chipped flints used as scrapers or for flint-lock gun.* 2 found & in new location. TAR, 5/3/1993. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Arrow shaft smoother of stone.* A pair (2976, 2977) of coarse silicious sandstone arrow shaft smoothers.** Half-cylindrical stone with shallow groove on flat side. *Information is from the original accession ledger. ** Fide donor GTE.

16 crossed out to 10 leaf-shaped heads pointed at both ends.* 9 found & in new location. TAR, 5/3/1993. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Jade celt or chisel.* Fide donor GTE: Jade chisel, whitish black, 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.

Deer horn wedge.* Fide donor GTE: Deer-antler wedge dug up on the bank of the Fraser River, two and one half miles above Lytton and with it a bear's tooth. *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Stone wedge.* *Information is from the original accession ledger.

Digger handle of sheephorn.* Fide donor GTE: Handle of digging stick of the horn of the mountain sheep, a very old and much decayed specimen dug up near Lytton. For gathering edible roots, and excavating for any purpose, digging sticks of the rudest type,-simply sharpened sticks- were inserted in a handle of horn or bone, the butt end fitting in and through a hole in the middle of the handle. The handle was more often of the horn of the mountain sheep through often of elk-antler. Very old handles are found upon excavating old house sites, while others are still seen in the possession of the people, the type of both being the same. *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.

Jade knife.* Fide donor GTE: Portion of a jade knife. *Information is from the original accession ledger.