Kwädąy Dän Ts’ìnchį: Teachings from Long Ago Person Found. Edited by Richard J. Hebda, Sheila Greer, Alexander P. Mackie. Royal British Columbia Museum. ISBN 9780772666994, 2017
A native copper artifact, nearly circular in outline, was found at the Kwädąy Dän Ts’ìnchį site i... more A native copper artifact, nearly circular in outline, was found at the Kwädąy Dän Ts’ìnchį site in 1999. Informally called a bead, it is 7.5–8.0 mm in diameter, 1.5 mm thick, weighs 0.51 grams and has a 2-mm diameter hole located slightly off-centre of the object. Two sinew threads (2 cm and 1.5 cm long) with two-ply S-twists are attached to the bead, which appears to be made from a single piece of coiled copper. Native copper is that which is found naturally in a metallic state, often 99.9 per cent pure, and numerous sources have been noted throughout south-central Alaska and southwestern Yukon. Indigenous people in the region were using native copper by at least 1000 AD and continued to use it after industrially produced metal trade goods became available in the 18th century.
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