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1925.29.61

Stone adze blade; identified by Figueroa and Sánchez as an Eastern Polynesian Adze Type 5-C (finished). [Dan Hicks 06/06/2012]

1925.29.61

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone adze blade; identified by Figueroa and Sánchez as an Eastern Polynesian Adze Type 5-C (finished). [Dan Hicks 06/06/2012]
Date
Date collected
By 1925
Acquisition information
Donated: 1925
Materials and processes
Material Stone
Dimensions
Width: max 31 mm, Length: max 98 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1925.29.61 Other numbers: 7
Research and responses

This object was identified as a Tubuai Adze Type 5-C (finished) in Figueroa and Sánchez's 1965 review of "Adzes from certain islands of eastern Polynesia". See Appendix 2, p. 222. [Dan Hicks 06/06/2012]

Associated publications
Figueroa, G. and E. Sánchez 1965. Adzes from certain islands of eastern Polynesia. In T. Heyerdahl and E. Ferdon (eds) Reports of the Norwegian archaeological expedition to Easter Island and the East Pacific Vol. 2: Miscellaneous Papers. London: George Allen and Unwin, pp. 169-255. [Dan Hicks 06/06/2012] A drawn illustration of this object is published as Plate 72 (f) of Figueroa, G. and E. Sánchez 1965. Adzes from certain islands of eastern Polynesia. In T. Heyerdahl and E. Ferdon (eds) Reports of the Norwegian archaeological expedition to Easter Island and the East Pacific Vol. 2: Miscellaneous Papers. London: George Allen and Unwin, pp. 169-255. [Dan Hicks 06/06/2012]

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