- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Adze with chisel-shaped stone blade, hafted on a branch with plaited sennit fibre. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/11/2004]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1881
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1881
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone, Material Wood Plant, Material Sennit Coconut Seed Fibre Plant, Process Bound, Process Ground, Process Carved, Process Plaited
- Dimensions
- Length: max 345 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.33.18 PR no.: 65/ 12394 [? 63/ 12394] 63/ 12395
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