Context (Display)
Exhbiited in Show Case number 15 (15/22). [undated]
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Context (Acquisition Details)
Collected by Baron Anatole von Hugel possibly in 1875.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Helved
Event Date 23/7/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'O.X.685.H.' inscribed in white ink on the shaft. 'Z. 3598' inscribed in white ink on a sanded patch of the shaft twice.
Event Date 28/6/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 3598. FIJI'. [typed:] 'Adze of stone, helved. See Z-3590. [stamped in blue ink:] 'THE VON HÜGEL COLLECTION CIRCA 1875.' [added in pencil:] 'E i a' and 'OX 685 H'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '15/22'. [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 15'. [stamped in black ink:] 'CUMAA 23 JUL 1987 TRANSCRIBED'. A small round red sticker pasted to the front of the card.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Z 3598. Adze of stone, helved. See Z. 3590. Show Case number 15'. [added in pencil:] 'E i 6' and 'OX 685 H.'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '15/22'.
Event Date 28/6/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Hafted adze. 'V'-shape shaft of dark wood, circular in section and irregular in width, with visible knots. Irregular butt. The 'bend' at the top is pointed. The shortest part of the shaft has been hollowed out and made convex to receive a layer of coir and the adze head of dark black stone. The adze head and the shaft are bound with a tight lashing of 3-ply plaited coir into which two slivers of wood have been inserted. The adze head is almost oval in section, convex at the top and flat underneath. Rounded sides. The cutting edge formed of the surface slanting at the top and bevelled underneath.
Event Date 28/6/2013
Author: maa