Adze
- Museum number:
- 2-4050
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004050
- Alternate number:
- 222 (additional number, Neumann number) and x-196 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- 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).
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; St. Michael
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Materials:
- Antler (material) and Leather
- Taxon:
- Rangifer tarandus caribou
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Adzes
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- for sale
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 30.5 centimeters
- Comment:
- Second Orig. No.: Neumann #222.
- Loans:
- S1962-1963 #54: Florence Rosen (April 30, 1963–May 6, 1963), S1962-1963 #61: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Vincent Evans (June 24, 1963–June 24, 1963), S1966-1967 #94: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 18, 1967–April 18, 1967), S1967-1968 #86: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 6, 1968–February 6, 1968), S1967-1968 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968), S1970-1971 #143: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 11, 1971–June 16, 1971), S1970-1971 #149: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (June 25, 1971–July 9, 1971), and S1977-1978 #75: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 15, 1978–June 20, 1978)
- Legacy documentation:
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