18 JADE

stantial houses, ornamental carvings, to-
tem-poles, and canoes dug out of giant
cedars—wonders of marine architecture.
Before the introduction of iron, all of this
work was executed with stone tools, of
which the jade celt was the most impor-
tant. Among the Tlingit, the value of a
jade adze-blade two or three inches in
length was from one to three slaves. When
its owner used it, his wife should refrain
from all frivolity, as any unbecoming con-
duct on her part might cause the blade to
break.

That some of these coast people worked
jade is proved by the finding of cut bowlders
and sandstone tools about the mouth of
the Fraser and along the eastern shore
of Vancouver island; but farther north,
while celts have been found everywhere,
few natural or worked bowlders have been
discovered, and, so far as known, no cutting
tools. Dr Newcombe, of Victoria, in-
forms the writer that he possesses a cut
bowlder of jade that was found at Fort
Rupert while digging at an old house-site.
Among the Tlingit, throughout southeastern

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