2017.1.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Adze with stone blade fixed to a wooden haft with a cord of plaited sennit. [FB 5/1/2017]

Geographical reference

Fiji

Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji

Ovalau Bureta

Person

Field collector Henry Nottidge Moseley

Field collector HMS Challenger

PRM source Amabel Nevill Sollas

Date / Period

Date made: Before 11/08/1874

Date collected

25 July to 11 August 1874

Acquisition information

Found unentered: 05/01/2017

Materials and processes

Material Basalt Stone, Material Wood Plant, Material Sennit Coconut Seed Fibre Plant, Process Carved, Process Ground, Process Plaited, Process Bound

Dimensions

Width: max 182 mm, Length: max 280 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 2017.1.1

Associated publications

See entry in Henry Balfour's diary for 18 September 1922 [in PRM Manuscripts collection]. "...I watched some of the men making long, barrel-shaped, beads of conch-shell, by grinding the columella on the wetted surface of a saddle-shaped stone, + drilling with a hand-twirled drill with long point of wire (or sometimes an old umbrella spoke). [sketch] A split wooden clamp used for holding the shell while being ground or drilled. (held with the feet for the latter purpose). Bead-making + trading in beads is a great speciality at KHONOMA. I bought a bead-making outfit (except for the grind stone) for 1 1/2 R., +, later, some unfinished + finished beads for 1 R. each...." https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/manuscripts/balfourdiaries1922.html [MdeA [OPS move] 6/1/2017]

Search terms: Tool, Food and Drink, Weapon, Navigation, Adze, Food Accessory, Agricultural Tool