adze
- Museum number
- Oc,+.6256
- Description
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Adze with blade of green stone, wooden handle and bark binding.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1893)
- Curator's comments
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This adze is registered on first of two Christy registration Slips numbered "+6256"; this Slip number amended correctly to +6256 from +6254 [?; visible beneath]; the second Slip subsequently amended to "+6256a" - see separate record).
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Christy collection registration slip description, written in 1893?:
Trobriand Is.
Heavy adze blade of dull green stone roughly shaped handle binding of bark.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.6256
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1893C2.6256 (old CDMS no.)
