Some Terms Relating To Archaeology

bone remains	shtth'utth'a'
museum	shni's tthu shtth'utth'a' ('place of the bone remains')
gravesite	syuw'a'numa' shmukw'elu ('First People burial site')
reburial	thuy'ulutsum ('honoring deceased by digging up bones, wrapping and reburying')

Materials Found in Sites


anchor, sinker	lhqun'utun anchor, sinker (cf. lhqun'ut moor it)

wedge	shseq'ul's (splitting wedge)
maul	mol

knife	shuptun (cf. shiput cut along it; shupmun shavings)
scraper, knife (Snuneymuhw)	'uxtun (cf. 'ixut scrape)
stone knife	smeent shuptun

adze	skwuschus
D-adze	stulhtsus
adze	sht'umuw'ulh adze-like mattock
adze	shtulhtsusum' adze-like mattock
adze	sht'ut'umul's adze with straight hammer, like a mattock but with short handle

spear	s'unum (fish spear, spear shaft)
spear point	te'ulh
spear point	tth'aqwi'tun

arrow	tth'umeen' (also tth'um'een)
bow	tuxwa'ts
yew	tuxwa'tsulhp
bowstring	tl'imun (bowstring, tendon, leadline)

blanket pin	ts'uqw'nistun (cf. ts'qw'at pierce it, poke a needle in)

bullrush	stth'e'qun
tule	wool'
mat	slhewun
wall mat	sala'uts
summer mat house	sala'utsew't-hw
mat	luqw'uy' (a reed mat in a lattice-weave pattern)
mat	thul'shutun (braided or woven of rushes or cloth)
wooden needle	ts'qw'e'lhtun (used to lace rushes)
mat creaser	qwthumtsus
loom	'uyumun
make bullrush mats	'ukw'emutth't (hook fibre or rush)

Revised 2013-06-29.