✅ SOLVED Stone tool of some kind

[Opps Ifoundit]

This was the first Native American artifact I ever found around 35 years ago. We were tilling up a beachfront piece of ground for planting potatoes in the San Juan islands Washington State when this popped out of the ground. Talking to a ninety year old guy that lived nearby he said he remembered there was still potlatches at the site when he was a small boy. Still pretty sharp! Anyone have any idea on how that was used? It's 6" x 3 1/2"

 

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[VERDE]

Hey Opps Ifoundit!! Really Neat Find!! Looks like an old scraper!! Still has quite an Edge on it!! One of the guys will pin point for you!! CONGRATS!! GOOD HUNTING!! VERDE!!

 

[monsterrack]

Hey Opps Ifoundit!! Really Neat Find!! Looks like an old scraper!! Still has quite an Edge on it!! One of the guys will pin point for you!! CONGRATS!! GOOD HUNTING!! VERDE!!

Verde is right it is tool for hide scraping and cutting. great find

 

[rock]

I dont think its a scraper or knife the reason being is there is no secondary flaking on the edges. I believe it to be a broken Hoe. It shows polish on the edges not secondary flaking. Its just so thin and the material looks like slate but the only thing I can think of is a Hoe.

 

[Opps Ifoundit]

On each end of the beach from the site there is rock outcrops of rock similar to this rock that sometimes flakes off like that. They would have had plenty of material around to work with.... what ever it was for.

 

[VERDE]

Very Interesting Opps Ifoundit!! Really Neat Piece!! Good Eye!! CONGRATS!! GOOD HUNTING!! VERDE!!

 

[scepter1]

Most of our coastal artifacts were made from basalt/slate, as is yours. Natives were not much into farming - not a hoe. More like a Knife / Scrapper combo tool.

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[Tnmountains]

Maybe thin for a hoe. Looks more like a hide scraper and worker to make it supple. Every animal has enough brain matter to tan its own hide.After coming out of a brain soak they would pull it across a surface such as that to break it down into buckskin.
Interesting find.

 

[Tnmountains]

Oh yeah.... Welcome to T-Net!

 

[unclemac]

looks like a slate "ulu" type knife to me...

slate ulu knife - Google Search


http://momaw.kikaimegami.com/ulu/

 

[Twitch]

You beat me to it Mac, I believe it's an 'Ulu'. Very cool. As Scepter will attest I'm a huge fan of any Western WA finds.

Welcome to the site.

 

[unclemac]

You beat me to it Mac, I believe it's an 'Ulu'. Very cool. As Scepter will attest I'm a huge fan of any Western WA finds.

Welcome to the site.

i thought you were one of them Mandan folk....