Context (Acquisition Details)
Donated to the Museum by the Sedgwick Museum in 1951, but the original donor was not recorded
Event Date 1951
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads [handwritten in blue ink:] '1951.417 A-D Oceania. Polynesia. New Zealand. A = Long, narrow, polished stone adze. Butt end rather battered and one corner of the cutting edge is missing. Length 8 1/2". Width of cutting edge probably 2". Width of butt 1 1/8". Pointed oval section. Picked up on the surface of the ground in Auckland by C.H. Delamain. Presented to the Sedgwick Museum by Professor T. McKenny Hughes.
B = Maori adze of baked argilite [sic]. Broken at the butt. Only polished at the cutting edge.'; [continues of reverse of card:] 'Thick, square section. Present length 5 4/5". Width of cutting edge 2 3/10". Thickness 4/5". Presented to the Sedgwick Museum by T.H. Easterfield.
C - D Two small chisels probably from New Zealand but neither are labeled [sic].
d.d. Sedgwick Museum. February 1951.' [Red circular sticker bottom right of card; black and white photograph showing 4 objects labelled 1951.417 A-D attached to back of card.]
Event Date 1951
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
One of four stone implements; small chisel probably from New Zealand.
Event Date 1951
Author: maa