Stone (argillite or slate)

Carved

From Annual Archaeological Report of Ontario for 1891. Provincial archaeologist David Boyle wrote: "When perfect this gorget could not have been less than seven and a half, or eight inches long. It is of a dark colored argillite resembling a common school-slate. At the small end, one-half of a small hole remains showing that the specimen at one time extended farther in this direction, as well as towards the roughly fractured end. The small end is ground down from both sides to a cutting edge. The chief peculiarity of this specimen consists in the number of carelessly cut diagonal lines, on both sides. Almost invariably articles of this kind are perfectly free from markings." See publication history below for full citation details.

ROM record description: "incised grid pattern on both sides; broken through one hole, another complete in same end, partial in other end"

Collected by David Melville in 1889

Sketch & comment appear in the Annual Archaeological Reports of Ontario: David Boyle, "Notes on Specimens," in Fourth Annual Report of the Canadian Institute, Session of 1890-91, being an Appendix to the Report of the Minister of Education, Ontario, 1891 (Toronto: Warwick & Sons, 1891) p. 45-46.

Also appeard in Garrad Notes 1974.

A complete set of the AAROs are available in the library of the Royal Ontario Museum. This volume is also available as a digital copy through the Internet Archive (www.archive.org)

Unknown artist, gorget. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, NS11134. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2008; GRASAC item id 25734.

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.