Stone axe (weapon)
Danaya Hoover (Contributor)
Brandon Moonin (Contributor)
Melissa Shaginoff (Contributor)
Dawn Randazzo (Contributor)
Nicholas Jordan (Contributor)
Kristin K'eit (Contributor)
Mark Hiratsuka (Contributor)
Jessica Towns (Contributor)
Teal Hansen (Contributor)
Amber Totemoff (Contributor)
Brandon Moonin (Contributor)
Melissa Shaginoff (Contributor)
Dawn Randazzo (Contributor)
Nicholas Jordan (Contributor)
Kristin K'eit (Contributor)
Mark Hiratsuka (Contributor)
Jessica Towns (Contributor)
Teal Hansen (Contributor)
Amber Totemoff (Contributor)
Ethnological Museum of Berlin Repository
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Tools & Technology Heritage Kit
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Tools & Technology Heritage Kit
kiutaq - Crow bar
Danaya Hoover: Two types of binding materials used: raw hide and plant fibers. It looks like Cedar or Spruce root. That's what you would find in Chenega. Why was it braided?
Dawn Randazzo: It's interesting that they used both raw hide and plant fibers. I wonder what the benefit of each material was.
Brandon Moonin: It seems like the curve of the handle is intentional and that it is smaller used for smaller objects like wooden bowls. The handle looks like it is a tree branch that is curved up.
Melissa Shaginoff: Slate can be broken apart and its good for scraping hides. To brittle for other uses.
Brandon Moonin: The indigenous word used by Jacobsen could be the Sugt’stun word for bark stripping.
Nick Jordan: could the darker material be kelp?
Kristin K'eit : Similar tools are used in SE AK and the PNW for carving out canoes, and larger areas of totems. And could be used for the cultural modifications on trees in the area.
Mark Hiratsuka: I have seen a miniature version of the adze item, that the Yuk's used in the southwestern communities to carve out wooden bowls.
Jessica Towns: kiiyutaq in Koniag Alutiiq is a crowbar.
Kristin K'eit : Maybe digging roots for weaving or clams or edible roots?
Teal Hansen: qecug-to pull at something.
Amber Totemoff: Kiigutaq is the Chenega Alutiiq word for crowbar.
Teal Hansen: bark stripping wedge
Kristin K'eit : Building off Teal's bark stripping wedge comment, modern gathering of cedar bark uses an axe to cut a horizontal line at the base of the tree trunk, and then the ax edge is slightly pushed in between the inner edge of the bark and upward to start the separation of the outer bark from the inner bark.
(quotes taken from 9/7/23 Open Archive zoom meeting)
Danaya Hoover: Two types of binding materials used: raw hide and plant fibers. It looks like Cedar or Spruce root. That's what you would find in Chenega. Why was it braided?
Dawn Randazzo: It's interesting that they used both raw hide and plant fibers. I wonder what the benefit of each material was.
Brandon Moonin: It seems like the curve of the handle is intentional and that it is smaller used for smaller objects like wooden bowls. The handle looks like it is a tree branch that is curved up.
Melissa Shaginoff: Slate can be broken apart and its good for scraping hides. To brittle for other uses.
Brandon Moonin: The indigenous word used by Jacobsen could be the Sugt’stun word for bark stripping.
Nick Jordan: could the darker material be kelp?
Kristin K'eit : Similar tools are used in SE AK and the PNW for carving out canoes, and larger areas of totems. And could be used for the cultural modifications on trees in the area.
Mark Hiratsuka: I have seen a miniature version of the adze item, that the Yuk's used in the southwestern communities to carve out wooden bowls.
Jessica Towns: kiiyutaq in Koniag Alutiiq is a crowbar.
Kristin K'eit : Maybe digging roots for weaving or clams or edible roots?
Teal Hansen: qecug-to pull at something.
Amber Totemoff: Kiigutaq is the Chenega Alutiiq word for crowbar.
Teal Hansen: bark stripping wedge
Kristin K'eit : Building off Teal's bark stripping wedge comment, modern gathering of cedar bark uses an axe to cut a horizontal line at the base of the tree trunk, and then the ax edge is slightly pushed in between the inner edge of the bark and upward to start the separation of the outer bark from the inner bark.
(quotes taken from 9/7/23 Open Archive zoom meeting)
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