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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.
Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 5-6895, described as Native name: Erokun Adze; solid wood handle bent with sharp angle inserted into curved iron blade; l. 29 cm. Used and made by men to work wooden bowls and pots.
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
Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 5-13400, described as Adze—wood; hook-shaped handle with circular metal blade tilted over short end of handle. Length 46 cm, width 19.4 cm.
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 2-4049, 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 2-4053, 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.
Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 9-11532, described as adze; cylindrical, carved, hardwood handle fitted to squarish, down-curving steel blade. Length 16 cm, overall length 36 cm.

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