Flaked adze-blade with straight edge and rectangular section. The butt has at some point broken and been reattached. [MN 07/07/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Flaked adze-blade with straight edge and rectangular section. The butt has at some point broken and been reattached. [MN 07/07/2010]
Geographical reference: New Zealand
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > New Zealand; South Island Farewell Sandspit
Cultural groups: Māori
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Mrs Alfred Nicholson Leeds; PRM source Edward Thurlow Leeds
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1919
Date collected: By 1919
Acquisition information: Donated: 1919
Materials and processes: Material Basalt Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Length: max 325 mm, Width: max 90 mm, Depth: max 60 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1919.17.7
Research and responses: Mrs A. N. Leeds was the widow of Alfred Nicholson Leeds (1847-1917), 'a gentleman farmer and amateur fossil hunter who, together with his brother Charles Edward Leeds (1845-1912), amassed a prodigious quantity of fossil vertebrates'. She may have inherited this small collection from her late husband, who in turn may have acquired it from his brother, Charles Edward Leeds, who emigrated to New Zealand in 1887. [JC 12 1 2006]
This object was seen by Dr Yvonne Marshall, Southampton Museum, as part of the Fell funded Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections. She noted that such flaking, as opposed to grinding, of the large tools is a classic feature of archaic adzes. [AS 05/07/2010]

Search terms: Tool, Adze

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