Object Number | NA5699 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Chilkat | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Stone | Wood | Hide | Plant Fiber |
Description | Stone elbow adze lashed to a fitted wooden handle with hide lashings and maple bark fiber rope. Used for general, large-scale woodworking like hollowing out a canoe or house construction. |
Length | 61.5 cm |
Width | 15 cm |
Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917 |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.