adze

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Object Type
Museum number: Oc.4507
Description: Adze made of iron, wood, sinnet, vegetable fibre. The handle and head are in two pieces lashed together with fine cocoa-nut cinet and are made of pale buff wood. The blade is a thin piece of iron ?hoop fixed into a slit in the lower part of the head and lashed round with cord of twisted fibre.
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Caroline Islands (?); Found/Acquired: Tuvalu (?); Found/Acquired: Tokelau (?)
Materials: iron; wood; fibre
Dimensions: Height: 44 centimetres; Width: 11 centimetres; Depth: 4 centimetres
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1867
Acquisition notes: Purchased from Wareham 24.12.1867.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Oc.4507
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Oc1867C1.4507 (old CDMS no.)

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