Adze with an iron blade

Tlingit
Northwest Coast

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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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