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Object Number
00-8-70/55726
Display Title
Adze with bone blade
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Adze, carved wood, flat bone fragment blade is bound with plant fiber cordage to head of adze
Classification
- Adze
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Federated States of Micronesia
/
<State>
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Truk Island
Additional Geographic Terms
Caroline Islands
Materials
Wood , Bone , Plant fiber cordage
Dimensions
Overall (Depth is width of bone blade): 35 × 26.5 × 8.2 cm (13 3/4 × 10 7/16 × 3 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
55726
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