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To what purpose these two knives were
put is not known. From the angle of the
sharpened edge they would seem particu-
larly adapted for cutting skins, but this
was ordinarily done with chipped basalt
blades.

Pl. vim, c, exhibits a knife of an entirely
different type: it is of a homogeneous,
deep-green jade, leaf-shaped, with one
cutting edge rounding to a dull point, and

lis suitable for cutting fish, or as a skinning
implement. ‘The upper end has been some-
what broken and shortened, and from its
size and shape it was evidently set in or
secured to a handle. The edge is dulled
from use, but shows where beveled slightly
more on one side than on the other. It
was dug up from an old grave on the south
bank of the Fraser, just above Lytton.
Dimensions, 3 in. long, 13 in. in greatest
width, and } in. thick.

DRILL-POINT

The only drill-point seen was of bright-
green jade, about an inch and a quarter
in length (fig. 3); it was found in digging

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