Adze handle
- Museum number:
- 1-2151
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010002151
- Alternate number:
- 735 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.67, Acc.69, and Acc.86
- Description:
- Adze handle, stone, round; slightly curved proximal end; flattened distal end for attachment of blade.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Northwestern California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Materials:
- Stone (worked rock)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Adzes and Handles (components)
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1903, January 15, 1903, and July 15, 1902
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 5.7 centimeters and length 18.8 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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