Splitting Adze

33-37-599

From: United States of America | Alaska | Montague Island | Stockdale Harbor

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 33-37-599
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Prehistoric Eskimo
Provenience United States of America | Alaska | Montague Island | Stockdale Harbor
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Locus 1st site on right lagoon
Section American
Materials Greenstone
Description

Made of assymetrically shaped slab of greenstone. Point damaged. Forward groove, 4 cm. wide, well defined. Small knob. Rear groove poor.

Height 3.5 cm
Length 20 cm
Width 7.5 cm
Credit Line Danish National / University Museum Expedition; Kaj Birket-Smith and Frederica de Laguna, 1933
Other Number X-106 - Field No SF

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