Adze handle

Museum number:

1-1225

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010001225

Alternate number:

3225 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.19

Object count:

1

Description:

Adze handle, stone. Tapered cylindrical handle at one end, flattened notch for blade at other. Rawhide lashing looped around blade notch. Ground stone.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Requa, Klamath (CDP), Del Norte County

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Humboldt; Requa

Culture or time period:

Yurok

Collector:

Philip Mills Jones

Collection date:

August 7, 1901

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Adzes and Handles (components)

Function:

1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits

Accession date:

December 7, 1901

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

length 22.1 centimeters and width 4.8 centimeters

Comment:

Photo: 15-4836.

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