Adze
- Museum number:
- 2-30946
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020030946
- Accession number:
- Acc.1931
- Description:
- Steel blade hafted with cedar bark twine onto wood handle.
- Donor:
- James P. Heath, Phyllis Heath Walker, and Ruth Mary Heath
- Collection place:
- Howkan, Prince of Wales Island, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Alexander Archipelago; Howkan
- Culture or time period:
- Haida
- Collector:
- Harold Heath
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Adzes
- Accession date:
- 1964
- Context of use:
- A finishing adze, according to Reg Davidson, Haida sculptor (10/1990). Used for finishing a totem pole or canoe.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 32.5 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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