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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 2-4055, described as With steel blade, from plane. Wooden handle, rawhide lashing.
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 2-4050, 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 2-4042, 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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Armbands, accession number 2-72229a,b, described as a) leather armband with strips of leather wrapped with quills. most quills red with yellow, white and blue patterns. attached to one side of armband are 3 leather thongs wrapped with red quills and feathered tassels. b) same as a)
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6672, described as Bone point. unilaterally barbed bone point inserted into wooden shaft; feathers at proximal end; binding of sinew. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq.

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