Adze Item Number: 2018.O.002:17 from the Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre
Description
Ground adze; cream coloured; dent on ventral surface; chip TL; bevelled edges; detatchment scar on one lateral edge
Provenance
Little Mountain School, Chilliwack, ca. 1960s, during construction.
Notes
bifacially ground and polished axe fashioned from cream coloured nephrite; rectangular cross-section with bevelled lateral edges; longitudinal grooves on one lateral edge on either side of snap to detach adze from parent material (poss. rejuvenation of damaged tool?); bit lightly bevelled on dorsal and ventral surfaces; proximal end damaged, probably from being struck with hammerstone or maul
Item History
- Collected by Greg Peters
What
Who
- Field Collector
- Greg Peters
Where
- Holding Institution
- Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre
Other
- Homeloc
- Sto:lo Material Culture Repository