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D09091 adze

The adze consists of a wooden stick that bends in an L-shape at one end. A large shell with rattan is tied to the wood on the short side.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
hatchets
Dimensions
General: 22 × 4.6 × 57 cm
Material/Technique
shell; wood; rotang | carved; polished; plaited
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D09091

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1910 (?)
    where
    Bougainville Island (?)
  • Change of physical control
    who
    Ludwig Cohn (1873 - 1935)

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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