Stone Adze Blade Item Number: E405492-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Grooved; pecked into shape and edge ground. See Niblack, 1890, pl. XXIII. Collector says: "Presented at Cluhwon [spelled Kluhwon in accession file ledger sheet], Oct. 1915, by Chief Yilhawk of the Chilkat tribe."Cluhwon/Kluhwon may be Klukwan? "Chief Yilhawk of the Chilkat tribe" may be one of the men variously called Yel-hawk, Yeal-hawk, and, more correctly, Yeilxaak.
Item History
What
- Name
- Stone Adze Blade
- Identification Number
- E405492-0
- Type of Item
- adze
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Chilkat
- Field Collector
- Ernest P. Walker
Where
When
- Collection Date
- during October 1915
- Acquisition Date
- on September 30, 1966
Other
- Accession Number
- 268733