adze
- Museum number
- Am1999,03.1
- Description
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'D' adze, with a large handle of yew (?), pierced with an oval, and a forward pointing lower edge, the upper edge carved with a sqatting singing figure; the steel blade from an axe is used as blade lashed with an old binding of commercial string through the blade, handle and a hole pierced at the blade end of the handle. The binding is loose, the handle has a nail in it at the upper end, perhaps to secure the binding, and there may be a single insect hole at the upper end of the handle, which is cracked.
- Production date
- 1780-1900
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.50 centimetres
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Length: 21 centimetres
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Width: 4 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Such adzes were used for instance in canoe work; and are not common. The singing figure is reminiscent of the supporting figure on the bowl 1971 Am 5.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair to poor.
- Acquisition date
- 1999
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased 23.4.1999, Lot 326.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1999,03.1
