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1932.85.1.1

Adze with short, thick, angular wooden haft [.1] and ovate blade of nephrite [.2]. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/11/2004]

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1932.85.1.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Adze with short, thick, angular wooden haft [.1] and ovate blade of nephrite [.2]. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/11/2004]
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source James Thomas Hooper
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1932
Date collected
By 1932
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1932
Materials and processes
Material Nephrite Stone, Material Wood Plant, Material Sennit Coconut Seed Fibre Plant, Process Carved, Process Ground, Process Plaited, Process Bound
Dimensions
Length: max 230 mm, Length: max 140 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1932.85.1.1 Accession number: 1932.85.1.2
Research and responses

Related Documents File [James Thomas Hooper, Catalogue of Ethnographical Material] - The museum has a photocopy of Hooper's accession and dispersal records, which are bound as two volumes and kept in a separate box file. Items are arranged according to Hooper's own numbering system [RTS 21/11/2003].

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