Adze handle

Museum number:
1-1225
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3225 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Adze handle, stone. Tapered cylindrical handle at one end, flattened notch for blade at other. Rawhide lashing looped around blade notch. Ground stone.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Requa, Klamath (CDP), Del Norte County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Requa
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 7, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Adzes and Handles (components)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
December 7, 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 22.1 centimeters and width 4.8 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4836.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 1-1225, described as Adze handle, stone. Tapered cylindrical handle at one end, flattened notch for blade at other. Rawhide lashing looped around blade notch. Ground stone.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 1-1225, described as Adze handle, stone. Tapered cylindrical handle at one end, flattened notch for blade at other. Rawhide lashing looped around blade notch. Ground stone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 1-1225, described as Adze handle, stone. Tapered cylindrical handle at one end, flattened notch for blade at other. Rawhide lashing looped around blade notch. Ground stone.

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