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Plate XIV 
British Columbia Coast 
Sculptures of Stone 
Figure 1. Piece of soapstone with one end carved to represent a human head, bearing 
incised figures of a bird and a quadruped, probably modern. From shell-heap at 
Pentlatch Indian village, near Comox, B.C. Comox, Salish Indian and Kwakiutl, 
Wakashan Indian area. Collected by Franz Boas, 1889. Cat. No. XII-B-603 
(2646) (6) in Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada; \ natural size. 
Figure 2. Incised bird form on reverse and animal form on obverse of object illustrated in 
Figure 1. 
Figure 3. Sculpture in stone, probably used as a small mortar. From shell-heap. Port 
Hammond, B.C. Salish Indian area. Collected by James Scott. In collection of 
Reginald C. Brooke, Port Hammond, B.C. ; £ natural size. After Figure 55d, Smith, 
Shell-heaps, 1903, from a drawing by Reginald C. Brooke. 
Figure 4. Sculpture in stone. From the vicinity of Yale, B.C. Salish Indian area. Cat. 
No. IV B 1749 in Royal Ethnographical Museum, Berlin; £ natural size. After 
Figure 193a, Smith, Gulf of Georgia, 1907, from drawing by W. von den Steinen. 
Figure 5. Sculpture in hydrocarbon, probably used as a pendant. From 3| feet deep, 
and 1 foot west of skull No. 5, Cat. No. 99-1751 in American Museum of Natural 
History, New York, in gravel, in main shell-heap at Eburne, B.C. Salish Indian area. 
Collected by Harlan I. Smith. Cat. No. 16-5031 in American Museum; \ natural 
size. After Figure 58, Smith, Shell-heaps, 1903. Cast, Cat. No. XII-B-601 in 
Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 
Figure 6. Sculpture in stone. From the vicinity of Yale, B.C. Salish Indian area. In 
collection of Mr. Daniel Ashworth, Wappingers Falls, N.Y.; | natural size. After 
Figure 193c, Smith, Gulf of Georgia, 1907, from cast, Cat. No. 16.1-137 in American 
Museum of Natural History, New York. 
Figure 7. Fragment of a stone pipe bearing a scupltured animal form. From shell-heap, 
Port Hammond, B.C. Salish Indian area. Collected by James Scott. In collection 
of Reginald C. Brooke, Port Hammond, B.C.; § natural size. After Figure 55a, 
Smith, Shell-heaps, 1903, from a drawing by Reginald C. Brooke. 
Figure 8. Sculpture in stone, probably used as part of an implement. From 3 inches 
below skull No. 3, Cat. No. 99-1749 in American Museum of Natural History, New 
York, which was 1 foot deep, in main shell-heap, Eburne, B.C. Salish Indian area. 
Collected by Harlan I. Smith. Cat. No. 16-5032 in American Museum of Natural 
His ton,', New York; | natural size. After Figure 57, Smith, Shell-heaps, 1903. 
Cast, Cat. No. XII-B-602 in Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. There 
are two similar specimens in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 
New York. 
Figure 9. Sculpture in stone. From “between Vancouver island and the mainland", B.C. 
Salish Indian area. In Museum of the University of Washington, Seattle; ? natural 
size. After Figure 197a, Smith, Gulf of Georgia, 1907, from cast, Cat. No. 16-9831 in 
American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
