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1892.67.79

Stone adze head

1892.67.79

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone adze head
Long description
Stone adze head. The stone is dark grey. The adze is cylindrical. The adze is oval in section, the underside is flat. The working face is ground smooth. [MJD 18/07/2014]
Geographical reference
Fiji
Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1892
Date collected
By 1892
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1892
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Polished, Process Ground
Dimensions
Width: max 52 mm, Length: max 157 mm, Thick: max 40 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1892.67.79
Research and responses

Note that only a tiny fraction of JW Flower items are also marked as being related to the Pitt Rivers founding collection. Whilst it is possible that they did originally form part of the founding collection, were brought from London in 1884 and then placed with the geological (or other) collections at Oxford University Museum of Natural History before eventually being transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum it seems odd that they were not all recorded as being related to the founding collection. Most are attributed to being donated by Flowers to OUMNH and being transferred from there [AP 23/07/2009]

Search terms: Tool, Adze

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