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Object Number
18-20-70/D1162
Display Title
Hafted stone axe, roughly fastened
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Adze, carved wood handle worked at bottom, stone blade is hafted between two adze head pieces which are wrapped or woven with rattan
Classification
- Axe
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Papua New Guinea
/
<State>
/
New Britain
Materials
Wood, Rattan, Stone
Dimensions
Overall (Width = length of adze head and blade): 55 × 33 × 6.6 cm (21 5/8 × 13 × 2 5/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
D-1162; (105916-1); (105916-2)
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| |
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| |
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|
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| |
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Raw Material
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| |
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Axe
|
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| |
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Adze
|
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