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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 2-4050, described as Socketed, nephrite blade hafted in caribou antler, with rawhide lashing. Stone axe head encased in antler socket and lashed to antler handle; additional lashing along handle, to give a better grip to the user. Interesting REPLICA made partly with old used material (jadeite blade and leather thong).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4052, described as Socketed adze, small, stone, with bone handle, green blade.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4051, described as Socketed adze, small stone ax with bone handle, green blade. Second original number: W.L.G. #11.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-1426, described as With nephrite blade, handle of antler, rawhide lashing.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-19015, described as Adze with steel blade hafted to wooden handle with rawhide.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-37115, described as Socketed adze. Antler handle. Antler socket. Nephrite blade.
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 2-7112, described as (Nephrite), stone blade, wooden handle with red-stained groove both sides. 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.

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