PLATE IX

a. Bowlder of translucent blue-green jade, oblong, rounded
worn ends, used asa hand-hammer. Found on anold village-
site on Fraser river, opposite Lytton, British Columbia. :

b. War-pick of homogeneous, deep-green jade, with slight
veins of a darker color, exhibiting a central ridge along the
lateral sides, gradually decreasing toward the curved end.
The head or cutting edge is convex, and stands vertical when

mounted. From the Stikine tribe of Tlingit, near Wrangel,
Alaska.