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Adze
Object Number 05-7-10/65487
Display Title Adze
Descriptions
Inventory Description Adze, metal blade, hafted with rawhide and fiber cord to carved wood handle/head
Classification
  • Adze
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Quileute
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Washington
Materials Wood, Metal, Rawhide, Fiber cord
Dimensions Overall: 53 x 22.5 x 6.1 cm (20 7/8 x 8 7/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 05-7-10/65487
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1905)

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