D-Adze Item Number: A3518 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Narrow steel blade. Leading end flares to a slightly curved sharpened edge. Bolted onto a whale bone handle with the shaving-deflecting ridge at the front and an unturned curve at the back.
History Of Use
Wood-working tool
Item History
- Made in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Unknown (Unknown)
What
- Name
- D-Adze
- Identification Number
- A3518
- Type of Item
- adze
- Material
- whale bone and steel metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved and worked
- Overall
- height 7.6 cm, width 29.8 cm, depth 6.3 cm
Who
- Culture
- Northwest Coast
- Received from
- Unknown (Unknown)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Other
- Item Classes
- metalwork
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 9