Adze Blade

Tlingit
Northwest Coast

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Prehistoric

Stone

Overall: 8 1/4 × 1 9/16 × 3 1/8 in. (21 × 4 × 8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Doris Meltzer

166.56.24781

Geography

Place Made: Angoon, United States, North America

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Adze

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Northwest Coast

Not on view

Exhibition History

Ancinet Native American Pottery, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition; Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 7-February 9, 1992.

Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibitions; Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 13-March 4, 1990.

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.

Provenance

Joan Cammel, north of Angoon, Alaska; [possibly collected by Axel Rasmussen (about 1887-1945), possibly 1920-30's; Earl L. Stendahl (1887-1966), Los Angeles California]; sold to Doris Meltzer (1908-1977), Meltzer Gallery, New York; given to present collection, 1966.

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