- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone adze blade; identified by Figueroa and Sánchez as an Eastern Polynesian Adze Type 1-B (finished). [Dan Hicks 06/06/2012]
- Geographical reference
- Tubuai Islands, Raivavaé Marae Unurau
- Date
- Date collected
- By 1925
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1925
- Dimensions
- Width: max 66 mm, Length: max 102 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1925.29.73 Other numbers: 76
- Research and responses
This object was identified as Adze Type 1-B (finished) in Figueroa and Sánchez's 1965 review of "Adzes from certain islands of eastern Polynesia". See Appendix 2, p. 221. [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]
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