Object Number | 2003-43-247 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Nanai |
Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
Culture Area | Siberia |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Metal | Leather |
Technique | Carved | Incised | Forged | Lashed |
Description | Adze consisting of an elaborately carved, crooked wooden handle to which a heavy iron blade is lashed with hide strips; a piece of fishskin pads the area between the blade and the handle; incised scroll and triangular designs decorate the head and the end of the handle. |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1899.1.247 - Other Number | 74-1-88 - Other Number | 189 - Other Number |
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