Adze

29-175-513

From: Canada | British Columbia | Queen Charlotte Islands

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 29-175-513
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Haida
Provenience Canada | British Columbia | Queen Charlotte Islands
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wood | Metal | Leather
Description

"Elbow" adze. Wooden handle, metal blade, strip leather lashing. Handle made from branch with section where it joins trunk left attached as a platform for attachment of blade. Leather binding continues around top part of handle shaft as well as around blade and "blade platform"

Credit Line Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917
Other Number 1/1317 - Collector Number

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