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JADE

small, stray, cut bowlders, that they worked
jade. In fact, from the great value with
which these Indians regarded the small
adze-blades, and from the scant testi-
mony available, it would seem that jade
was procured wholly in trade from the
south. In order to fashion jade objects
of such length, bowlders of the largest size
worked by the Fraser River Salish would
have been necessary; yet thus far nothing
of this size has been found within their
habitat, nor is there any evidence of the
necessary working tools. These blades
are as long as the longest chisels found
among the Fraser River Salish, but no
specimen of this particular type has ever
been seen on the Fraser among the hun-
dreds of worked or partly worked pieces
of various shapes that have been dug up
on the oldest occupied sites. For these
reasons the question of the origin and manu-
facture of this class of jade implements
remains unanswered.

From every evidence we possess, the
Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Haida are made
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