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for carving. The short, heavier blade,
a smaller type of the adze, was inserted
in the end of a short, straight section of
elk-horn or wood (fig. 2), and possibly it
served as a skin-dressing tool,
as well as a chisel.

A fine bright-green jade
celt (pl. vu, a), which had
been sharpened with a round-
ing edge at each end (one end
is broken), must have been
used either as a skin-dress-
ing implement or as a war-
club lashed to the end of a
wooden handle. It was col-
lected many years ago at
the mouth of Fraser river.

Long, slender,  finely-fin- eae
ished blades might have Method ofin-

5 serting chisel

been fitted in complemen- in bone han-
tary grooves in wooden or ae
bone handles, and secured with a seizing;
but some of these are so finished and
smooth at the base that they suggest hand
tools. Two tiny chisel blades of light-
green jade, an inch and a half long, and

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