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Tlingit. 
Chilkat blanket (2901). Purchased from Hon. Mr. Justice Martin. 















































Haidan, 
Hat, spruce-root, with painted crest (2902). Purchased from Mrs. Wm. Charles. 
Athabascan. 
Tobacco-bag, with ornamental bead-work (2877). From Hudson Hope, north of Peace River. 
Presented by Chief Constable Thos. Parsons. 
Bag ornamented with beads (2879). Presented by Chief Constable Thos. Parsons. 
Knife with wooden handle (2880). Used for barking trees. Presented by Chief Constable 
Thos. Parsons. 
Moccasins, rawhide (2881). Presented by Chief Constable Thos. Parsons. 
Illustrations, Archawology of British Columbia. 
Plate I., Fig. 1. Stone pile-driver (2891). Size, 22 x 4% x 4% inches. Weight, 23% Ib. 
Three specimens of this type were obtained at Seton Lake in 1916, and with the exception of a 
few specimens in the collection of W. H. Keary, Esq.. of New Westminster, none others have 
been observed. So far as known, no such implements have been either described or illustrated 
and no reference is made to them in the report on the Lillooet Indians by the well-known writer, 
Mr. J. A. Teit, of Spences Bridge. 
Plate I., Fig. 2. Carved stone baton. Size, 13%4 x 2 inches. Collected at Hoquelget, Bulkley 
River, in 1897, and presented to C. F. Newcombe by A. T. Vowell, Esq., Indian Superintendent for 
British Columbia. The specimen was found with many others some feet below the surface of 
the ground when digging over the foundation of an old house by Chief Johnny Muldoe. 
Several of the batons were of hard stone and not carved, and these were suitable for use 
as weapons. Others, like that figured, were of sandstone, deeply carved and perforated, and 
were too brittle, both as to material and make, to be serviceable aS weapons. 
The tradition obtained from Indians says that these were last used by the Gitanmax or 
Hazelton band of Tsimshians nearly a hundred years ago when fighting with the Kitsegukla 
band in alliance with the Kit-ksuns of the Upper Skeena. 
The Gitanmax were nearly wiped out, but their weapons and insignia were collected after 
the battle by an old woman who cached them where they were found by the Babine chief 
mentioned. 
Several similar batons are in the Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, from Metlakatla. 
This type of batons has not hitherto been described or illustrated so far as known. 
Plate Il., Fig. 1. Stone implement (1801/557). Size, 644 x 51% inches. Of mica-schist. 
This specimen is shaped somewhat like the bone-bark choppers of certain Coast tribes or some 
of the fish-knives, having a straight upper edge and a curved lower one. It is, however, much 
thicker than either of these and the edge is blunt. ‘Three similar specimens were collected in 
an old kitchen-midden on Digby Island, near Prince Rupert, together with a great number of 
bone and stone objects, and another has been in the Provincial Museum since 1889. This was 
collected at Port Simpson by Mr. W. B. Anderson and is numbered 753. No information as to 
history and use could be obtained from the Tsimshian people. 
Plate Il., Fig. 2. Stone implement (1793/2382). Size, 3144 x 1% inches. Of porous sandstone, 
with numerous deep grooves. This is one of a few similar specimens found in the kitehen-midden 
at Digby Island, already referred to. No information as to use obtained from Indians. It is 
suggested that it might have served as a scraper for the gut used for bow-strings and other 
purposes. 
Plate II., Fig. 3. Stone hand-hammer (1786/561). Size, 7 x 4 x 1% inches. Weight, 414 Ib. 
Of tough igneous rock, rounded oblong, narrow at the ends, each of which has two shallow 
grooves. There are two flattened striking surfaces parallel to each other. 
In the Museum, collected from the kitchen-midden at Digby Island, there is a series of 
sixteen stones of similar size and shape, ranging from the natural smooth, water-worn pebble 
to the fully manufactured object. The series shows intermediate stages of manufacture 
beginning with shallow grooves made by battering the natural pebble with another hard stone. 
