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Object Number 04-28-10/63545
Display Title Nephrite celt
Descriptions
Inventory Description Adz blade, ground stone, broken, chipped
Classification
  • Adze
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Kuigpagmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Bering Sea; Lower Yukon River
Materials Stone
Dimensions Overall: 3 x 3.6 x 1.2 cm (1 3/16 x 1 7/16 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1 Fragment
Label on object 63545
Provenance
Collector Rev. Charles Lemon Hall
Donor Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (1904)

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