Adze handle

Museum number:
1-9279
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
153 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.210
Description:
Adze handle, or natural formation; stone; cylindrical with flange at one end and blunt point at the other.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
John Gist's mine, Weitchpec, Humboldt County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Gist Mine
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Stone (worked rock)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Adzes and Handles (components)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 10.2 centimeters and diameter 4.9 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 1-9279, described as Adze handle, or natural formation; stone; cylindrical with flange at one end and blunt point at the other.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 1-9279, described as Adze handle, or natural formation; stone; cylindrical with flange at one end and blunt point at the other.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 1-9279, described as Adze handle, or natural formation; stone; cylindrical with flange at one end and blunt point at the other.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 1-9279, described as Adze handle, or natural formation; stone; cylindrical with flange at one end and blunt point at the other.

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