- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Axe headed dao, iron blade is incised with lines and chevrons, wooden handle is bound with bands of cane. [AR 4/7/2007]
- Person
- Field collector Eric Thomas Drummond Lambert
- PRM source Eric Thomas Drummond Lambert
- PRM source Henry Balfour
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- By 1942
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1942
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Cane Plant, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 570 mm, Width: max 125 mm blade
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.8.10
- Research and responses
Traditional implements [used in Nagaland] include the light hoe, the dao (a multipurpose heavy knife) Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica [MR 9/5/2000]
1942.8.10
Axe headed dao, iron blade is incised with lines and chevrons, wooden handle is bound with bands of cane. [AR 4/7/2007]
1942.8.10
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