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Object Number 88-51-10/50207
Display Title Skin breaker or scraper
Descriptions
Inventory Description Adz, ground stone blade, carved wood handle, rawhide lashing
Classification
  • Adze
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Askinakmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Norton Sound
Dimensions Overall: 28 x 5.5 x 5.1 cm (11 x 2 3/16 x 2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50207, 33087/ Norton Sd / Nelson; Kigik
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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