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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-37864, described as Adze; socketed bone head attached to bone handle with strips of baleen; 11 3/4” length
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4055, described as With steel blade, from plane. Wooden handle, rawhide lashing.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4043, described as Stone blade, spruce root hafting
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4045, described as Adze with stone blade hafted with rawhide to short wood handle. Black. Made of stone, wood, rawhide thong.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4049, described as Socketed, small stone adze encased in bone, with wooden handle, curved handle pierced in 2 places for rawhide thong binding.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-1961, described as With stone blade, curved wood handle, rawhide hafting. According to Eskimo consultant Ronald W. Senungetuk (July 1987) this is a prehistoric adze for carving with new handle added later during A.C.C. marketing.
Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-30946, described as Steel blade hafted with cedar bark twine onto wood handle.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-19248, described as Green stone adze hafted to wooden handle with rawhide thong. Triangular nephrite blade.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-1280, described as Stone blade, curved wood handle with red-stained grooves on both sides, handle is pierced in 2 places for spruce root binding.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4053, described as Stone blade (missing) was set into an antler socket; lashed to wooden handle with braided sinew string; handle wrapped with additional sinew string to procure a better grip.

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