Notes

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 23, fig. 91; p. 278, also in Proceedings, USNM, vol. 60; Pl. 15, no. 4; p. 48."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=618 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Adze House and canoe builders did their heavy woodworking with stone-bladed adzes. The grooved blades were basalt, greenstone or jade, lashed to a handle made from a forked tree branch. On great occasions such as a house-building potlatch, the host might carry an adze to symbolize the wealth he had achieved by building and trading canoes.