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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 2-19248, 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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 1-2049, described as Ground stone, straight, round, cylindrical; flattened area at distal end for blade attachment. Sharpened iron blade (rusted and partially broken) lashed to flattened area with string.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-2771, described as With stone blade, rawhide hafting.
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 2-4064, described as Stone adze head, old and worn.
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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-2356, described as Made of stone.

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