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1951.2.35

Adze with stone blade set in bone foreshaft, fixed to bone handle with sinew through four holes. [El.B 24/04/2012]

1951.2.35

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Collection type
Object
Description
Adze with stone blade set in bone foreshaft, fixed to bone handle with sinew through four holes. [El.B 24/04/2012]
Cultural groups
Inuit (Greenland)
Inuit
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1951
Date collected
By 1951
Acquisition information
Donated: 1951
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Material Animal Sinew, Material Whale Bone Animal, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Bound
Dimensions
Depth: max 49 mm, Width: max 122 mm, Length: max 237 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1951.2.35
Research and responses

Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]

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