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Object Number 05-2-70/64858
Display Title Axe blade, stone
Descriptions
Inventory Description Axe blade, chipped stone, flat, tapered to rounded worked blade, sharp
Classification
  • Axe
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1904
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Chile / Rapa Nui
Materials Stone
Dimensions Overall: 16 x 11.8 x 1.1 cm (6 5/16 x 4 5/8 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 64858
Provenance
Collector Alexander Agassiz (1904-1905)
Expedition Albatross Expedition
Donor Donated by Alexander Agassiz (05/1905)

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