axe
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.575.a
- Description
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Polished bifacial greenstone axe blade, lenticular cross-section narrowing towards butt, finely polished blade with small chips from use-wear.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Length: 22.20 centimetres
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Thickness: 1.30 centimetres
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Width: 10.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Drawn in register attached to haft no.575.
In set with Oc1906,1013.575
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Axe head ground on Murua, from stone obtained in Suloga. Exchanged throughout Massim area. Known as "benam" in Tubetube. See Seligmann, The Melanesians of British New Guinea, 1910.
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Axe blade originally registered as 575.a and haft as 575, although now recorded as 575.b. Comment by Heather Donoghue, Ph.D candidate, UEA, 2020.
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Provenance given as Boioa, an alternative spelling of Boyowa (now Kiriwina). 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
- Oc1906,1013.575.a