HOW REGARDED

was taken with much difficulty from the
swift-flowing, confined waters of the river.

HOW REGARDED BY THE INDIANS

Among the older Salish on Fraser river
the writer saw preserved rough and worked
bowlders, and even fragments of implements
that they had dug up in the fields and to
which a fictitious value was attached.
From two men were purchased, not with-
out difficulty, several small, beautiful,
deep-green pebbles, which were kept with
personal belongings. Such are said to
have been worn suspended from the neck
as ornaments by girls and women in earlier
days. In fact, another very beautiful,
bright green, translucent jade pebble (pl.
I, @) was procured from an older woman
of the Lillooet band at Bridge river which
she wore about the neck when a girl as a
charm and an ornament. At the village
of Stein, on the Fraser above Lytton, was
found treasured by an old man a small
pebble of a milky-white color, splashed
with bright green (pl. 1, b). It was ex-
amined by Drs Laufer and Farrington,

AND MONOGRAPHS