Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads [handwritten in blue ink:] '1951.1008. A-D Oceania. Polynesia. New Zealand. Four greenstone adze heads of different sizes. A = Very large, olivish-black in colour. Butt roughened with "pecked" technique. The rest is highly polished. Length 10 1/8". Width of cutting edge = 2 7/8 ins. and nearly straight.
B = With "pecked" butt and well polished cutting edge. Very dark green colour. Length 4 5/8". Cutting edge slightly convex 2" wide.
C = Very dark green and highly polished except where the butt end has been roughened with "pecking'. Length 5 1/8". Width of straight cutting edge 2 1/12 ins.'; [continues on reverse of card:]
'D= Lighter green, mottled well polished small adze blade. Showing sawing marks on one side and facetting. The whole surface is polished. Length 3 3/4 ins. Width of straight cutting edge 2 1/8". No exact provenance given.
'd.d. Dr J.H. WARCUP Waite Agricultural Institue, Adelaide, Australia.' [Red circular sticker bottom right front of card; black and white photograph showing 4 objects labelled 1951.1008 A-D attached to back of card.]
Event Date 1951
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
One of four ?greenstone adze heads; lighter green, mottled well polished small adze blade. Showing sawing marks on one side and facetting. The whole surface is polished.
Event Date 1951
Author: maa

Context (Production / use)
Only 'D' appears to be of greenstone. The others may be of basalt.
Record checked and revised by Amiria Salmond (2001.07.26).

Event Date 28/7/2001
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Toki. Polished adze head of poumanu (greenstone). Light green, mottled well polished small adze blade. Showing sawing marks on one side and facetting. The whole surface is polished.
Event Date 12/8/2025
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (Acquisition Details)
Donated and presumably collected by New Zealand-born mycologist John Henry (Jack) Warcup, who did his PhD at Cambridge University (19. In 1951 he became a senior microbiologist in the Department of Plant Pathology at the then Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide, now known as the Waite Research Institute (WRI).
Event Date 12/8/2025
Author: Rachel Hand