Planing Adze

53-54-42

From: United States of America | Alaska | Knight Island | Yakutat Bay | Old Town

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 53-54-42
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience United States of America | Alaska | Knight Island | Yakutat Bay | Old Town
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Locus Mound B, lower level, brown sandy midden
Section American
Materials Greenstone
Description

One nearly flat, smooth side. Chipped and ground. made from broken splitting adze? Rounded butt, narrowed rough other end.

Height 3.6 cm
Length 17.4 cm
Width 7.2 cm
Credit Line University Museum / Bryn Mawr College Expedition to Alaska; Frederica de Laguna, 1953
Other Number 312 - Field No SF

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