Adze
- Museum number:
- 1-1173
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010001173
- Alternate number:
- 3173 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.19
- Object count:
- 1
- 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:
- width 3.5 centimeters and length 25.2 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:
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- Legacy documentation:
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