Splitting Adze

49-25-17

From: United States of America | Alaska | Admiralty Island | Angoon | Kootznahoo Inlet

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 49-25-17
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Kootsnuhu Tlingit
Provenience United States of America | Alaska | Admiralty Island | Angoon | Kootznahoo Inlet
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Locus beach below island fort
Section American
Materials Basalt
Description

Broken; possibly unfinished. Basalt. Roughly worked. Contains several barnacles.

Height 3.8 cm
Length 13 cm
Width 6.5 cm
Credit Line Survey of Northern Tlingit Country, Frederica de Laguna, 1949

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