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Alaska, during a period of more than twenty
years the writer observed no saws or other
tools for working the raw material, and
but two cut bowlders of jade. Of these,
a smal] grooved specimen was in possession
of a native at Chilkat; the larger piece,
from which two sections had been sawed,
was dug from an old house-site in the present
native village of Sitka. The older natives
knew what it was, but could give no infor-
mation regarding its position; for the
site at which it was found has been occupied
only since 1821, during which time these
people, in intimate contact with the Rus-
sians, have been supplied with iron and
steel which superseded the earlier stone-
edged implements.

The Tlingit call jade tsw (‘green’). From
the more intelligent older people questioned
in 1882, little could be learned. The
Tlingit generally agreed that it was ob-
tained in trade from the south, and that
it was found in the form of bowlders in
mountain streams of the interior. One
old man, however, claimed that in very
early days it was procured from a glacial

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