- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone adze, carved to represent an ?anthropomorphic figure. Brown in colour, elongated, with a sharpened edge at one end. Two circular perforations at the other. [ILL [OPS move] 31/10/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- By 1933
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone, Process Carved, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 7 mm, Length: max 147 mm, Width: max 13 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.49.55
Search terms: Religion, Figure, Ornament, Tool, Amulet, Pendant, Adze, Bird Figure
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