PLATE VIII

a. Knife of bright-green, translucent jade, with fine black
specks. It has a narrow groove along one lateral side, a
rounded, smoothed butt, and is beveledon both faces of the
cutting edge. Found in a burial mound on Fraser river,
near Lytton, British Columbia.

b. Knife of opaque, dark gray-green, veined and mottled
jade, tapering slightly toward the butt, oval in cross-section,
the faces equally convex. The convex cutting edge exhibits
a double bevel on one ‘side, and is straight on the other.
Found near Lytton, British Columbia.

c. Knife of homogeneous, deep-green jade, leaf-shaped,
with one cutting edge rounded to a dull point, but originally
beveled more on one side than on the other. From a grave
on Fraser river, near Lytton, British Columbia.

d, e. Two tiny chisels of bright-green jade used in etching
and finercarving. From Lytton, British Columbia.

f. Chisel of green jade, slightly beveled on one face.
Found in a burial mound on the north bank of Fraser river,
across from Lytton, British Columbia.