adze

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Object Type
Museum number: Oc,+.6256
Description: Adze with blade of green stone, wooden handle and bark binding.
Production ethnic group: Made by: Trobriand Islander; Made by: Massim
Production date: 19thC (before 1893)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Trobriand Islands
Materials: stone; wood; bark
Curator's comments: 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).; 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 name
Acquisition date: 1893
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Oc,+.6256
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Oc1893C2.6256 (old CDMS no.)

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