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1910.59.9

Stone axe or adze blade, flat with ground edge, of black stone. [El.B 28/11/2011]

1910.59.9

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone axe or adze blade, flat with ground edge, of black stone. [El.B 28/11/2011]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1910
Date collected
By 1910
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1910
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Ground
Dimensions
Length: max 151 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1910.59.9 Other numbers: 1910.ß.9 - 11
Associated publications
Illustrated in colour (along with 1910.59.10 and 1910.59.11) on page 8 of 'Dauncey's Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford' (a PDF downloadable from the Plymouth Museum website 'Papua New Guinea in Plymouth', at http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/dauncey_collection_prm.pdf) with the caption: 'The three stone blades below would each have been part of an adze or an axe, bound to a wooden handle with plant materials....' [FB 10/04/2013; JC 28 1 2015]

Search terms: Tool, Weapon, Adze, Axe

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