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Tlimiit. 

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



Haitian. 

 Hat. spruce-root, with painted crest (2902 1. 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 (2SS0). Used for barking trees. Presented by Chief Constable 



Thus. Parsons. 

 Moccasins, rawhide (28811. Presented by Chief Constable Thos. Parsons. 



Illustrations, Arehaology of British Columbia. 



Plate I.. Fig. 1. Stone pile-driver (2891). Size, 22 x 4V 2 x 4% inches. Weight,- 23% lb. 

 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 

 1 eeu 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 Tillooet Indians by the well-known writer, 

 Mr. J. A. Teit. of Spenees Bridge. 



Plate I.. Fig. 2. Carved stone baton. Size. 13% x 2 inches. Collected at Hoquelget. Bulkley 

 River, in 1897. and presented to C. F. Xeweombe 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, ana 

 were t".. 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 land of Tsimshiaus 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 II.. Fig. 1. Stone implement (1801/557). Size, 6% x 5 1 /. 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 1SS9. 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 II.. Fig. 2. Stone implement (1793/2321. Size. 3% x 1% inches. Of porous sandstone, 

 with numerous deep grooves. This is one of a few similar specimens found in the kitchen-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 (1736/561). Size, 7 x 4 x 1% inches. Weight, 4y 2 lb. 

 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. 



