Adze socket
- Museum number:
- 2-7178
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020007178
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Made of caribou antler. Probably archaeological.
- 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
- Taxon:
- Rangifer tarandus caribou
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Adzes
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Probably archaeological.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 13 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1966-1967 #94: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 18, 1967–April 18, 1967) and S1970-1971 #149: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (June 25, 1971–July 9, 1971)
- Legacy documentation:
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