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Fig. 164. A cylindrical mortar and pestle of brown color. The mor- 

 tar is cylindrical in form and a cup-shaped depression occuj)ies the 

 (renter. The pestle is of the dumb-bell pattern, very symmetrical in 



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form. This apparatus would serve much better as a snuff muller than 

 for hard jjounding'. 



Height of mortar, 4 inches; length of pestle, 4iV inches. 



Fig. 165. A stone hammer, of 

 seal-brown patina. This style of r^v -'%■!,- ' .,-^^^-;fe 



implement is generally called a ^; , . : - ■ , ''?■-, 



j)estle. But no one has ever seen ^ .;/ 



a savage wasting his time polish- \iVo-j:;^>' ■■'"■'■ " " vjsj^^ 



ing a hard stone, and putting a 

 shoulder around the bottom for 



the purpose of knocking it off the - . .. - ^^ 



first time he used it. On the other - »!' 



hand, any one who will visit Van- ,' ~- 



couver Island may see such stones 



in use, to-day, for driving wedges ^ 



into cedar logs to split them. It v 



is reasonable, therefore, to call 

 this specimen a hammer. ~ , ^,^ 



Length, 1^^ inches. ',- .,~^ -- ^ ^J^l 



Fig. 166. A large grinding ini '"^ ^ v . .. 



plement, of blackish surface, re- 

 sembling a cook's rolling-pin. The central j)ortion is convex on the 

 upper side, and flat beneath. The club-shaped ends were evidently to 

 be grasped in the hands. This is the rarest of forms. 



