Accession No
E 1902.238
Description
Adze blade; Adze head - [From catalogue card 1:] 'Adze' [added later:] 'small pear-shaped, made of stone'. [From catalogue card 2:] 'Stone adze head'.
Place
Oceania; Melanesia; Solomon Islands
Period
Source
Ruddock, David (Rev.) [collector]; Froude, Robert Edmund [monetary donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
E 1902.238; MAA: E 1902.238; Z 6706
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (CMS Description)
Small stone adze head, tapering towards the hafted end. Sharp straight cutting edge.
Event Date 8/12/2015
Author: maa
Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: a large brown rectangular label, damaged, is glued to one side of the object and reads, in black ink: '[?]Vaturasia / 1889'. A large Museum label glued to the other side reads, in black ink: '1902.238 / Adze / Solomon Islands/ (Ruddock Coll.) / *R.E. Froude Esq.' and [added later:] 'Z 6706'. 'E 1902.238.' inscribed in white ink on the object.
Event Date 8/12/2015
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
[From catalogue card 1:] 'Adze' [added later:] 'small pear-shaped, made of stone'. [From catalogue card 2:] 'Stone adze head'.
Event Date 8/12/2015
Author: maa
FM:268799
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