Plate XI 
British Columbia Coast 
Mortars Made of Stone 
Figure 1. Sculpture in stone, used as a mortar. From main shell-heap, Eburne, B.C. 
Salish Indian area. Collected by William Oliver. Cat. No. 16-7852 in American 
Museum of Natural History. New York; \ natural size. After Figure 56a, Smith, 
Shell-heaps, 1903. Side and bottom illustrated in Figures 2 and 1, Plate II, Hill-Tout, 
Notes, 1899. Three other four-legged sculptures in stone, used as mortars, have been 
found in the Salish Indian area, near Yale, B.C. See two in negatives, Cat. Nos. 
34583-34585, and one in Figure c, negative. Cat. No. 34582, in Victoria Memorial 
Museum, Ottawa, Canada. They are described on page 31, Smith, Yale, 1915. 
Figure 2. Profile view of head of sculpture illustrated in Figure 1; £ natural size. After 
Figure 56b, Smith, Shell-heaps, 1903. 
Figure 3. Sculpture in stone, used as a mortar, with rim ornamented by incised lines and 
a sculptured human head. From 3 feet deep in black soil in main shell-heap, Eburne, 
B.C. Salish Indian area. Collected by Harlan I. Smith. Cat. No. 16-5016 in 
American Museum of Natural History, New York; $ natural size. After Figure 
53a, Smith, Shell-heaps, 1903. 
Figure 4. Mortar made of stone. From Port Hammond, B.C, Salish Indian area. 
Collected by C. Hill-Tout, 1898. Cat. No. 614 in Provincial Museum, Victoria, B.C.; 
\ natural size. After Figure 53b, Smith, Shell-heaps, 1903, from a cast, Cat. No. 
16-8690 in American Museum of Natural History, New York. Also illustrated in 
Figure on p. 16, Hill-Tout, Notes, 1899. Cast, Cat. No. XII-B-633 in Victoria 
Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 
