adze
- Museum number
- Oc1915,-.44
- Description
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Adze with terebra(?) shell blade and haft of wood. Fibre lashing.
- Dimensions
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Height: 36 centimetres
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Width: 4.50 centimetres
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Depth: 19.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- From Register "Lord Howe's Group".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1915
- Acquisition notes
- From a collection of 43 Solomon Islands artefacts purchased from Woodford for £90 from the Christy Fund in 1915, registered as Oc1915.21 to 64.
Woodford visited and resided in Solomon Islands between 1884 and 1914, first as a naturalist, then as first Resident Commissioner for the British Solomon Islands Protectorate
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1915,-.44
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1915C3.43-44 (old CDMS no.)
