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Object Number 15-15-10/86055
Display Title Trade axe and handle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Axe, carved wood shaft, forged iron blade, chipped and damaged.
Classification
  • Axe
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Northeast
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Michigan / Grand Sable Island
Additional Geographic Terms Picture Rock
Materials Metal, Wood
Dimensions Overall: 77.7 x 16.8 x 4.8 cm (30 9/16 x 6 5/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 86055
Provenance
Collector Homer H. Kidder (1890)
Donor Dr. Alfred Vincent Kidder (1912)

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