- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Adze with ground and polished shell blade bound at socket with plaited plant fibre.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1884
- Date collected
- ?By 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884 Found unentered: 2014
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Process Carved, Process Plaited, Process Bound, Process Ground, Process Polished
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 90 mm, Width: max 337 mm, Length: max 633 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.1721
1884.140.1721
Adze with ground and polished shell blade bound at socket with plaited plant fibre.
1884.140.1721
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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