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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 2-37115, described as Socketed adze. Antler handle. Antler socket. Nephrite blade.
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 2-1426, described as With nephrite blade, handle of antler, rawhide lashing.
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 2-4046, 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 2-4049, 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 2-1280, described as Stone blade, curved wood handle with red-stained grooves on both sides, handle is pierced in 2 places for spruce root binding.

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