Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
99.21.008
Accession#:
99.21
Credit Line:
Donated by Mary Ann Parke.
Object Name:
Adz
Title:
Tlingit Elbow Adz, Iron Blade
Date:
1900
Description:
Tlingit adz with iron blade bound to hardwood haft with cotton twill and cotton cord. Haft is forked piece of wood with slender "branch" acting as handle. "Branch" used as blade holder. Handle has been worked smooth by use. Blade holder shaped to have a heel and recessed to received blade. Blade is rectangular hammered iron, sharpened by grinding edge. Coarse weave cotton twill original blue, now stained brown especially at frayed edges. Three—ply twisted cotton thread cord, originally whitish now stained brown from use and storage in smokehouse. Blade placed in haft recess, covered with folded twine bound with cord. Cord tied and wrapped around blade and haft about nineteen times, then wrapped around base of handle and secured.
Notes:
Collected & preserved by Thomas S. Parke in northern SOUTHEAST Alaska. Check document file for reference material. See "Stewart, Hilary, 1973, Artifacts of the Northwest Coast Indians" Hancock House Publishers; pp. 46—47.
11/2000 Steve Brown thought this had beautiful proportion & darkened color might be because it was stored in a smokehouse.
11/2000 Steve Brown thought this had beautiful proportion & darkened color might be because it was stored in a smokehouse.
Search Terms:
Tlingit
Native
Subsistence
T&E
Wood
Native
Subsistence
T&E
Wood
Click to Enlarge
Tlingit Elbow Adz, Iron Blade
Tlingit Elbow Adz, Iron Blade
Tlingit Elbow Adz, Iron Blade
Tlingit Elbow Adz, Iron Blade
Tlingit Elbow Adz, Iron Blade
Tlingit Elbow Adz, Iron Blade