Stone, with wooden handle. Grey nephrite blade, spruce root binding.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Root (plant material) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Adzes
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
2-4056
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 29.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1961-1962 #52: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (March 13, 1962–March 13, 1962), S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #44: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (November 16, 1966–November 16, 1966), S1966-1967 #91: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 13, 1967–April 13, 1967), S1967-1968 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968), and S1970-1971 #149: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (June 25, 1971–July 9, 1971)