Adze Blades Item Number: E60106-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "60104-6. 3 1/2" SPECIMEN [presumed to be # 60106?] RECOVERED FROM AN 8' DEPTH NEAR THE NW TRADING CO'S POST AT CHILCOOT, PORTAGE BAY, S.E. ALASKA. 60106 R.B.I., P.72." List in accession file dated December 1881 indicates the 3 1/2" adze had been found by G[eorge] Dickinson, the Northwest Trading Company's agent, while digging a well.
Item History
What
- Name
- Adze Blades
- Identification Number
- E60106-0
- Type of Item
- adze
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit, Chilkat and Hoonah ?
- Field Collector
- Sgt. John J. McLean
Where
When
- Collection Date
- during 1881
- Acquisition Date
- on June 23, 1882
Other
- Accession Number
- 011616