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Object Number 11-2-70/83889
Display Title Adze blade, stone
Descriptions
Inventory Description Adz, chipped sides, smoothed worked blade, pitted streak at center
Classification
  • Adze
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / <State> / Murua Island
Materials Stone
Dimensions Overall: 14 x 8.7 x 2.9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 7/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 83889
Provenance
Donor Donated by Dr. William McMichael Woodworth

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