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Ground stone sculpture in the form of a human head with Incised facial features. The eyes are oval-shaped and capped with straight lines above to represent eyebrows. There is a thin nose and a straight line for a mouth surrounded with full lips. On both sides of the head there is an ear. Shape of the head is oblong with a pointed chin and an uneven, pitted surface.
Tool made from a large, oval piece of coarse stone and a thick wooden handle. The dark stone has a deep groove around the middle and another groove that runs perpendicular to the first one, around one end of the stone. One end of the thick wooden handle is rounded, the other end flares. The flared end is carved to fit lengthwise over the stone with several grooves. The leather lashings are wound around the stone and the wooden handle; the grooves in the stone and wood holding the lashings securely in place.
Spatulate tool. Long flat bone piece, slightly triangular in shape with one wider end and rounded tips. Made from sea mammal bone. The bone has a spongy appearance.
Round, granular stone mortar, or dish, with circular depression worked into top. Remains of red-orange pigment in and around the depression.
Bowl with nine petal-like lobes around the shallow, depressed area; rim of bowl is higher than the top of the lobes.
Bark beater made from bone and shaped like a club. The head is rectangular with a series of fine parallel grooves running lengthwise. Handle has slightly flaring butt end.
Elbow adze greenstone (nephrite?) blade rectangular in shape with a bi-facially bevelled and curved bit. Lashed with hide strips to a carved wooden hafting platform with an acutely-angled branch providing a handle.
A rounded piece of coarse dark stone, which is flat on both ends and has a deep circumferal groove around the middle for holding hafting lashings. Lower edge is flattened to sit firmly on hafting. Head is lashed with cedar root to carved wood hafting platform. Extending from this is a curving branch which acts as a handle.
Straight pick with a tapered point at each end made from mottled brown walrus tusk (possibly fossilized). Pick is bound to a straight handle of brown walrus baculum with rawhide lashings.
Thin, dark grey, leaf-shaped point.