Adze

Museum number:
1-1173
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3173 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Curved stone handle; iron blade lashed to distal end with hide strips and twine. Rawhide finger protector lashed to handle with fiber. For scraping away chars in boat and box making.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Klamath River below Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Klamath River area; Klamath R. below Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Adzes
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
December 7, 1901
Context of use:
For scraping away chars in boat and box making.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 25.2 centimeters and width 3.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4842. Published: AAE I, pl 3, fig 1. BAE B78 pl.19. May have been used in film 26-358 in carving Hupa canoe.
Loans:
S1959-1960 #5: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (July 28, 1959–September 14, 1959)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 1-1173, described as Curved stone handle; iron blade lashed to distal end with hide strips and twine. Rawhide finger protector lashed to handle with fiber. For scraping away chars in boat and box making.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 1-1173, described as Curved stone handle; iron blade lashed to distal end with hide strips and twine. Rawhide finger protector lashed to handle with fiber. For scraping away chars in boat and box making.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 1-1173, described as Curved stone handle; iron blade lashed to distal end with hide strips and twine. Rawhide finger protector lashed to handle with fiber. For scraping away chars in boat and box making.

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