Indian Trade Ax
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Apr 1938
label: Collection Date
content: About 1800
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Gerrit S. Miller Jr.
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: FOUND IN A SPRING PROBABLY NEAR ALDER CREEK, A TRIBUTARY OF BLACK RIVER, ABOUT 1800, BY AN ANCESTOR OF THE DONOR. FASHIONED OF WROUGHT IRON AND STAMPED WITH A CROSS IN INTAGLIO. SIMILAR TO TRADE AXES DESCRIBED IN BULLETIN OF NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM. TRANSFERRED FROM ETHNOLOGY, FEB., 1979. OLD ETHNOLOGY NUMBER 379043.
label: Notes
content: Note on old Ethnology catalogue card: "Feb., 1979 - Axhead returned from MHT [NMAH] where it had been used by docents for demonstrations during lectures. Placed in our storage this date. J. Gardner."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alder Creek, Oneida County, New York, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Colonial American
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 147486
label: USNM Number
content: A530552-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Axe
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 15.88 cm