adze
- Museum number
- Oc1887,1217.31
- Description
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Adze with handle of wood, and head of stone (basalt), bound with sinnet.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1887)
- Dimensions
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Height: 34.50 centimetres
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Width: 8 centimetres
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Depth: 17 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See "Notebook 11" (Departmental Registration Archive) for related documentation.
Register slip comment:
'No. 18 Stone adze formerly used by the natives to fashion their canoes etc'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Acquisition notes
- From the Colonial and Indian Exhibition 1887.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1887,1217.31
