axe
- Museum number
- Oc1851,0103.9
- Description
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Axe, comprising dark green stone blade bound to pale wood haft with strips of bark. Twisted fibre cord on upper handle.
- Production date
- 19thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Length: 52.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Description from Extracts from the British and Medieval Register 1757-1878, p.107:
'9. Do [wooden] hatchet, stone blade. Length 21 inches. From same as 8 [Louisiade Archipelago]
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Acquisition notes
- From the HMS Rattlesnake expedition of 1846-1850.
Register slip note: 'Louisiade Islands June 15 1849.'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1851,0103.9