- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ground stone polished axe head. [FB 20/6/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Madang Province Middle Ramu District Simbai
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 03/1960
- Date collected
- 1960
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 18/12/2015
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 20 mm, Width: max 100 mm, Length: max 230 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2017.137.1.2
- Research and responses
This type of axe was identified by Michael O'Hanlon as a 'work axe' as opposed to a 'ceremonial' one from an area of PNG that was only pacified in 1958 (Simbai is in the remote Bismarck range, north of the Wahgi, and best known anthropologically from the work of people like Rappaport ('Pigs for the ancestors')). [FB 19/6/2017]
2017.137.1.2
Ground stone polished axe head. [FB 20/6/2017]
2017.137.1.2
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