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Object Number 25-46-70/D2419
Display Title Hafted axe
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ax, stone head, secured with bent wood handle, resin, tied with fiber
Classification
  • Axe
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Western Australia / Kimberley / <City> / Drysdale River
Oceania / Australia / Western Australia
Dimensions Overall: 33.5 x 9.5 x 4.5 cm (13 3/16 x 3 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object D2419
Provenance
Intermediary Mrs. Walter Badenach (1924)
Seller Unknown (1925)

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