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Object Number
09-7-70/74505
Display Title
Shell bladed adze (tridacna shell)
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Adz, carved wood curved handle, shell blade hafted into lashed wood head
Classification
- Adze
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Federated States of Micronesia
Additional Geographic Terms
Caroline Islands
Materials
Wood, Shell, Plant fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 103 x 47.5 x 9 cm (40 9/16 x 18 11/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
740505; 94-44
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Adze
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| 48-51-70/2951 | Small axe of tridacna shell head hafted into iron wood handle |
Axe
|
Yap Islands
| |
| 00-8-70/55480 | Small adze shell blade |
Adze
|
Likiep Atoll
| |
| 08-8-70/72894 | Stone bladed adze |
Adze
|
Fiji
| |
| 94-57-70/R1981 | Adze, blade of polished shell; secured to haft with wrappings of strips of cane |
Raw Material
Adze |
Nissan Island
| |
| 00-8-70/55510 | Adze |
Adze
|
Jaluit Atoll
| |
| 99-12-70/53544 | Adze with shell blade |
Adze
|
Palau
| |
| 48-51-70/2948 | Shell of tridacna used as spoon and pestle by old men who crush betel + |
Pestle
|
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| |
| 00-8-70/55538 | Adze with shell blade |
Adze
|
Marshall Islands
| |
| 91-6-70/50648 | Adze with shell blade |
Adze
|
French Polynesia
Vanuatu | |
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Adze
|
Ontong Java
| |
| 974-52-70/5537 | Adze; shell adze with wooden handle. |
Adze
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Ontong Java
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