adze;
blade
- Museum number
- Oc.4905
- Description
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Ceremonial adze, toki poutangata. Blade (Type ii b) only: nephrite, pale, mostly homogenous cloudy greyish/brownish green, brown butt, large hole. Strange shovel shape with reduced butt. Waterworn?
- Dimensions
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Length: 23.50 centimetres
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Width: 7.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Starzecka, Neich & Pendergrast 2010
Provenance: Presented by A.W. Franks, 18 July 1868.
Register: ‘Labelled as having been “found in a Tomb in Greece within a “Cyclopean” enclosure”
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.4905
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1868C1.4905 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1868C0720.2
