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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 2-4046, described as With nephrite blade, plaited rawhide hafting, short bent handle of wood. Description added later: short-handled azde with greenstone (jade) blade.
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 2-4048, described as Stone, with wooden handle. Grey nephrite blade, spruce root binding.
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 2-4055, described as With steel blade, from plane. Wooden handle, rawhide lashing.
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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4042, described as Stone adze with birch bark handle, rawhide hafting with wood wedge underneath. Some redstained sections on the handle.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4056, described as Socketed adze. With steel blade in bone socket, set in bone. Wooden handle, rawhide thong hafting.
Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4044, described as Ground and pecked black stone head (found underground and rehafted). Grooved and painted wooden handle with anthropomorphic and zoomorphic carved faces. Hafting by triple rawhide lashings through pierced handle. Pigment used.

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