- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Axe-shaped dao, with squarish iron blade fixed to a wooden handle by means of a long socket. The socket is covered with incised linear decoration which continues on to one side of the blade. [LM 18/07/2007]
- Geographical reference
- Indian-Burmese Border Nagaland
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1900-1950
- Date collected
- By 1972
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 10/1994
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Process Incised, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 660 x 140 mm blade
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1994.45.4
1994.45.4
Axe-shaped dao, with squarish iron blade fixed to a wooden handle by means of a long socket. The socket is covered with incised linear decoration which continues on to one side of the blade. [LM 18/07/2007]
1994.45.4
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