- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Nephrite adze blade with straight cutting edge.
- Long description
- Nephrite adze blade with straight cutting edge. The blade is dark green.
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Māori
- Date
- Date collected
- By 1892
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1892
- Materials and processes
- Material Nephrite Stone, Process Flaked, Process Ground, Process Polished
- Dimensions
- Width: max 78 mm, Length: max 187 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1892.67.785
- 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]
1892.67.785
Nephrite adze blade with straight cutting edge.
On display
1892.67.785
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