Artifacts, objects discarded with past uses now relinquished. Not new, odd or extraordinary, rudimentary silhouettes that stand for simple tools, tools that signify a time and a means of modification. Not the typical valuable aura-laden artifacts but modest icons with insignificant anthropological references, artifacts that also stand for a people, a time and a place, that stand for actions, events and a consequence. Modest tools lifted to a special status, now endowed with an indwelling spirit, referenced in a different way. History semi-obscure, read not by act but by encrypted artifact, items left behind. Tools collected for their intrinsic elegance and the romance of their past use.