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Adze with shell blade
Object Number 99-12-70/53544
Display Title Adze with shell blade
Descriptions
Inventory Description Adze, carved wood handle and head, shell blade bound to angled head with plant fiber cordage and sharkskin?
Classification
  • Adze
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Federated States of Micronesia / Palau
Additional Geographic Terms Palau Islands; Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Materials Wood , Shell , Sharkskin? , Plant fiber cordage
Dimensions Overall (Width is measurement of adze head): 53.2 × 36.7 × 7.6 cm (20 15/16 × 14 7/16 × 3 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53544
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor L. Cushing Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton

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