- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Adze with ground and polished black stone blade hafted to dark wooden handle. [FB 10/04/2014]
- Long description
- Adze with ground and polished black stone blade hafted to dark wooden handle. The blade is socketed and bound around the socket area with plaited plant fibre. A piece of reptile skin is bound to the top haft above the blade, secured in the plant fibre binding. [FB 10/04/2014]
- Geographical reference
- Society Islands Tahiti
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Unknown
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884 Found unentered: 10/04/2014
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Fibre, Material Wood Plant, Material Lizard Skin Reptile, Material Stone, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Plaited, Process Ground, Process Polished, Process Socketed
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 56 mm, Width: max 189 mm, Length: max 504 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.1725
1884.140.1725
Adze with ground and polished black stone blade hafted to dark wooden handle. [FB 10/04/2014]
1884.140.1725
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