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voir inundation made collecting ‘easy!

those who had the time to spend 2 day on the beaches and inundated

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foreshore areas. Today there

local collectors on the Lakes.

Some of these collectors nave now assembled. collections of

a considerable size. To cite a few examoles: .Xfeith and Ellen Bdgell

of Edgewood B.C. have a very large, well organized collection with
about 2,000 catalogued pieces. Keith end llarvel Milne, also of -
Edgewood, have a fairiy well organized collection with somewhere

between 3,000 ~ 4,000 pieces. Meat Ronn
very large collection--unfortunately not cateliogu

between 5,000 - 7,000 pieces.

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pieces to the Provincial Museum in Victoria.

will hopefully give the reader an idea of the number of

pieces that
have so far washed out of arch osical sites on the Arrow Lakes.

These figures do not include the tens oF thousands of uncatalogued

£ these collect-

Most artifact hunters obtain tretr collections through sur-
face collecting artifacts on washed out and wind blown archaeolog-

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