Jade in British Columbia and Alaska, and its use by the natives (1923)
Emmons, George Thornton, 1852-, Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 61
27 HAFTING the hand, for rubbing skins, but it seems their use for this was also rare. More often they were used as weapons, being hafted as tomahawks across the end of a wooden handle, in which they were inserted or set [fig. 1]. It is said, however, that they were not made especially for this… … Fig. 1. — Method of hafting celts. Celts of the second class, ranging from four to five inches in length, are broader of blade and proportionately heavier for their size (pi. vi, b , c). They taper slightly to the base, which is almost always irregular in form, sometimes rough, but generally wholly…
Jade · Indians of North America
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