Adze
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
19th century
Wood, iron, leather, tarred cotton cord
Overall: 18 3/4 × 1 9/16 × 15/16 in. (47.7 × 4 × 2.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Doris Meltzer
165.17.15601
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Adze
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 05, Introduction to Archaeology, Nathaniel Kitchel, Summer 2019
ANTH 11, NAS 11, Ancient Native Americans, Nathaniel Kitchel, Fall 2019
Exhibition History
Peoples and Cultures of the Northwest Coast and Arctic Regions, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-October 14, 1990.
Peoples and Cultures of the Plains, Northwest Coast, and Arctic Region, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Native American Studies 21 / Anthropology 40, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 30-December 20, 1992.
Provenance
Collected by Axel Rasmussen, in the 1920's and 1930's [until his death in 1945]; Earl Stendahl; to Doris Meltzer, Meltzer Gallery, New York; given to present collection, 1965.
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