tool or gorget

tool or gorget

tool or gorget

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Introduction

Flat, slate firemaking tool or gorget with three holes and tapered ends. Dr. Oronhyatekha Archeology collection.

Item has two attributions. LD and AC claim it is a firemaking tool; Dr. O catalogue attribute it as a stone gorget.

Materials

Slate

Techniques or Format

Flat stone, elongated, tapering toward the end, rounded at edges with three holes started

Original and Subsequent Uses

Dr. O catalogue: personal decoration

Current Location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: HD110
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1911
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Independent Order of Foresters
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: Robson, L. G.
Collection Narratives and Histories

gift of L. G. Robson to Dr. Oronhyatekha

Publication History

F. Barlow Cumberland, Catalogue and Notes of the Oronhyatekha Historical Collection (Toronto: Independent Order of Foresters, 1904),p 46, "Stone Tablet from Lot 7, Concession B, Keppel, gift of L. G. Robson. See 261."

F. Barlow Cumberland, Catalogue and Notes of the Oronhyatekha Historical Collection (Toronto: Independent Order of Foresters, 1904),p 47, "Indian Stone Gorgest or Tablets. Stone Gorgets - These flat stones of elongated form tapering toward the end, rounded at the edges and pierced with one to three holes, were worn as personal decorations. They were, in the stone period, the progenitors of the silver waughasees. In no. 253 the workman has abandoned his labour, one hole being unfinished..."

GKS Reference Number: 1354
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, tool or gorget. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, HD110. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2008; GRASAC item id 1354.

Record Creation Context

Record created as a result of a GRASAC-sponsored research trip to the Royal Ontario Museum, December 15-19, 2008. Research costs supported by a SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant (2007-2010, Ruth Phillips, PI). Record created during post-trip clean up by project RA Lisa Truong, under the supervision of Heidi Bohaker.

Approximate Place of Origin

46.7296, -94.6859

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