Freshly unearthed near Ashcroft: elk antler digging stick handle with fine incised lines . Affixed to a long crooked stick, they were used to harvest and replant valuable root and bulb foods like lilies and biscuitroot, and are considered women’s tools across the Plateau.

https://twitter.com/kamloopsarchaeo/status/1284620061114683392?s=21 https://twitter.com/kamloopsarchaeo/status/1284620061114683392

this reminds me of that time I realized these tools are interpreted differently in places with no ethnographic analogues... https://twitter.com/kamloopsarchaeo/status/830561621315510272?s=21 https://twitter.com/kamloopsarchaeo/status/830561621315510272

for the heritage nerds, I ran the pic through D-stretch on my phone to try to bring out the incising pattern, and standard camera filters aren’t bad either tbh, if you want to try before getting to the lab