Iron adze with slightly curved blade and socketed base, used for carving out logs and making stools [RTS 30/6/2005].

Collection type: Object
Description: Iron adze with slightly curved blade and socketed base, used for carving out logs and making stools [RTS 30/6/2005].
Long description: Iron adze, made from a single piece of metal. This consists of a narrow blade with double bevelled and slightly curved cutting edge at the end, and concave sides that widen towards the base, where the metal has been bend round to form a cylindrical socket with touching seam running down the underside. The blade and socket are in alignment with one another, although the blade curves down slightly towards its cutting edge. This tool would have been hafted onto a 1 metre long handle, not present in this instance. The adze head is complete and intact, currently a metallic gray colour (Pantone 420C) and has a weight of 195.4 grams. It is 195 mm long, with a maximum blade width of 32.3 mm and thickness of 6.5 mm; the socket has a diameter of 31.5 by 31 mm [RTS 30/6/2005].
Geographical reference: South Sudan
Africa > Eastern Africa > South Sudan; Eastern Equatoria Loryok
Cultural groups: Southern Laarim
Person: Field collector Jill Goudie; PRM source Patti Langton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 03/1979
Date collected: 20 - 25 March 1979
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1979
Materials and processes: Material Iron Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Hammered, Process Bent, Process Socketed
Dimensions: Length: max 195 mm, Width: max 30 mm, Depth: max 30 mm, Weight 195.4 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1979.20.177 Other numbers: ∆28
Research and responses: Because of the socketed base, and the nature of the blade, one would expect this adze head to be hafted onto a handle with an angled wooden foreshaft [RTS 30/6/2005].

Search terms: Tool, Adze

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