chopper;
handle
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.1335
- Description
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Light-coloured wooden sago chopper carved from the whole; haft formed formed from natural branch attachment, chisel marks visible on shaft, which tapers at end. Top of haft covered with section of sago spathe and wrapped in bark fibre cord.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4 centimetres (handle)
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Length: 61 centimetres (tip to tip)
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Width: 18 centimetres (along top)
- Curator's comments
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Expedition label stamped DANIELS ETHNOGRAPHICAL EXPEDITION written in black ink by Charles Seligman reads: 'Tubetube EATU 6911(D)'. Comment by Heather Donoghue, Ph.D candidate, UEA, 2020.
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Entry 6911D in William Cooke Daniels' Tubetube Catalogue reads: 'ËATU, Sago-chopper, mounted and used by men to break up the pith inside a split sago log so that subsequent operations of straining and washing may be facilitated. The stone is called a WEKUTAU, that is "a stone implement in the first very rough stage", and was imported from MURUA. cf. 6911A' (1905: 4-5). Murua = Muyua or Woodlark Island. Assumed that 'cf' means stone 6911A, now BM Oc1906,1013.965 is a sago adze stone example, rather than the stone that specifically belongs with this haft. Comment by Heather Donoghue, Ph.D candidate, UEA, 2020.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1906,1013.1335
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous Number: 6911D (Cooke Daniels Number)