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Stone adze with two-pronged blade, wooden pig knocker with 2 carved heads
Stone adze with two-pronged blade, wooden pig knocker with 2 carved heads
Object Number 2004.24.23828
Display Title Stone adze with two-pronged blade, wooden pig knocker with 2 carved heads
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Manufacture and General Utility
  • Studio
Subject
  • adze
  • Carving
  • Knocker
  • Wood
  • Stone
  • Head
Department Photographic
Date 1965
Artist Arsen E. Charles
Culture
  • Melanesia
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Vanuatu
Oceania / Vanuatu / <State> / Rano Island
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 8.89 cm (4 x 3 1/2 in.)

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