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Spud or Adz, between 5000 and 1500 BCE

  • North American, Native American

Copper

  • Overall: 1 1/4 × 4 7/8 × 3 5/8 inches (3.2 × 12.4 × 9.2 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Reik, Jr.

63.341

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Jacob J. Reik (Evart, Michigan, USA)

his son, Charles Melchior Reik (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

his son, Charles Melchior Reik, Jr. (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1963-present, given 1963 to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

North American, Native American, Spud or Adz, between 5000 and 1500 BCE, copper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Reik, Jr., 63.341.