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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4045, described as Adze with stone blade hafted with rawhide to short wood handle. Black. Made of stone, wood, rawhide thong.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4052, described as Socketed adze, small, stone, with bone handle, green blade.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4051, described as Socketed adze, small stone ax with bone handle, green blade. Second original number: W.L.G. #11.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4043, described as Stone blade, spruce root hafting
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4048, described as Stone, with wooden handle. Grey nephrite blade, spruce root binding.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4046, described as With nephrite blade, plaited rawhide hafting, short bent handle of wood. Description added later: short-handled azde with greenstone (jade) blade.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4050, described as Socketed, nephrite blade hafted in caribou antler, with rawhide lashing. Stone axe head encased in antler socket and lashed to antler handle; additional lashing along handle, to give a better grip to the user. Interesting REPLICA made partly with old used material (jadeite blade and leather thong).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4064, described as Stone adze head, old and worn.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-3939, described as Stone adze blade; green nephrite. This kind of blade was set in a socket. The working edge is sharpened from both sides.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4053, described as Stone blade (missing) was set into an antler socket; lashed to wooden handle with braided sinew string; handle wrapped with additional sinew string to procure a better grip.

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