adze
- Museum number
- Oc,+.5091
- Description
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Adze consisting of a wooden haft with a curved shell blade, heavily lashed with twisted coconut fibre cord and near the blade strips of cane have been incorporated.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1891)
- Dimensions
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Height: 44 centimetres
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Width: 27 centimetres
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Depth: 6.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Chrsity collection registration slip (1891):
[Mortlock Island]
Adze with T-shaped handle of pale wood, polished by use, & with a conoidal butt. Near the head it changes from round to semi-circular section. The blade is of shell inserted in cleft of the wood & lashed with a binding of plaited sinnet cord which is extended to the extremity of the other limb of the "T". Over the sinnet binding just above the blade is a composite covering of interwoven sinnet & rattan.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.5091
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1891C2.5091 (old CDMS no.)
