Adze with an iron blade
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
collected 1948
Iron
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
48.50.10967
Geography
Place Made: Hoonah, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Exhibition History
People of Potlatch, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 10, 1987-October 25, 1988.
Publication History
Elmer Harp, Jr., North to the Yukon Territory via the Alcan Highway in 1948: Field Notes of The Andover-Harvard Expedition, Occasional Papers in Archaeology No. 14.
Provenance
Puchased for the Dartmouth College Museum by Elmer Harp, Jr.(1913-2009) in Skagway, Alaska, 1948.
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