Carved wooden adze handle. For the blade see 1893.72.4 .2. [CW [OPS Move] 18/1/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Carved wooden adze handle. For the blade see 1893.72.4 .2. [CW [OPS Move] 18/1/2017]
Long description: Carved wooden adze handle. The handle has a plaited ring of hide around the foot intended to secure the blade, now detached. The foot of the handle is carved from the whole and extends at an acute angle to the perepndicular. For the greenstone blade see 1893.72.4 .2. [CW [OPS Move] 18/1/2017]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Milne Bay Province Kiriwina Goodenough District Trobriand Islands
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source British Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1893
Date collected: By 1893
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1893
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Plaited, Process Ground
Dimensions: Depth: max 45 mm, Width: max 155 mm, Length: max 520 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1893.72.4.1
Research and responses: AWF must refer to Franks the Keeper of the Ethnographic collections at the British Museum at the time [AP 13/06/2014]

Search terms: Tool, Adze

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