Awl, Hancock, MA

Object ID:

1959.10891.1

Community:

Massachusetts, Hancock

Description

Small steel tapered square blade set into a between-centers turned handle of (likely) eastern hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) with no ferrule. Tip of blade is twisted and blue from heat.

Massachusetts Hancock

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