Adze blade
- Museum number:
- 11-42426
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110042426
- Accession number:
- Acc.3145
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- adze blade, unhafted; carved rectangular turtle shell; sharpened along one edge; old label on underside; 14.5 cm. l.; 8 cm. w.
- Donor:
- Lloyd W. Swift
- Collection place:
- Micronesia
- Culture or time period:
- Micronesian
- Collector:
- Josephine Hall Bishop
- Collection date:
- 1917
- Materials:
- Shell (animal material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Adzes
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits and 8.3 For Manufacturing
- Accession date:
- June 16, 1975
- Context of use:
- part of adze, used in manufacturing (woodworking) label on bottom side reads, "Old native bone blade, used for cutting and digging.
- Department:
- Oceania
- Dimensions:
- length 14.5 centimeters and width 8 centimeters
- Images:
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