- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone adze blade
- Geographical reference
- West Papua
- Person
- Field collector Alice Moore
- PRM source Ipswich Museum
- PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1945
- Date collected
- By 1945
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1966
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Width: max 50 mm, Length: max 90 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1966.1.249 Other numbers: 1945.157.43B
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