Late Woodlands Adze, possibly Iroquois (1400-1650)
Description
- Media Type
- Object
- Description
- Found by Harold Harnden in Lakeport.
Finely shaped and smoothly finished stone hand tool with tapering blade at one end.
6 3/8" l. x 1 1/2" w. 1" h. / cm = 16.3 l. x 3.8 w. x 2.5 h.
Adhesive sticker residue on flat side of adze.
Colborne Heritage Site catalogue card: "Aboriginal knife" - Notes
- See two similar examples in the collections of the McCord Museum - ACC2844 and ACC2845
http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/explore.php?Lang=1&tableid=4&tablename=department&elementid=00015__true
- Date of Original
- 1400-1650
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 18ar
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.98342 Longitude: -77.8995
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- Contact
- Cramahe Township Public LibraryEmail:cramlib@cramahetownship.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:6 King Street West
PO Box 190
Colborne, ON K0K 1S0
