Collection: Fry

Item Number: Fry0157

Category: Blade - Adz Blades

Region: Arctic

Tribe: Eskimo

Period: 1850-1875

Materials: Stone/Jade

Description: These blades, one utilized as an ulu and two as adz blades were carefully crafted from a dark green jade or jade like stone. Cut marks, although polished by the original maker, are still visible.

Dimensions: 7" to 7.5"

Provenance:

Gary Litherland (adz blades). The ulu is from the Christine Heller Collection (ulu)

References:

Murdoch, John, Ethnological Results of the Point Barow Expedition, reprinted from the Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1877-1888, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1988, p.167

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