Northwest Coast Adze — TAD Tribal Art

Long-handled Northwest Coast Adze

Tlingit people (?), Alaska, United States, d. 19th c.

Stone, wood, and rawhide

19.5” h x 5.5” w (50 x 14 cm)

Price: $950

Collection number 80343 painted on wood handle. Cf. Nilback (1890: 279, pl. xxiii).

REFERENCES

Niblack, Albert P. The Coast Indians of Southern Alaska and Northern British Columbia.

Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890.