ko'i

Language: unknown
Language: unknown
Dechsel
Contact
Favorite

The roughly worked stone blade was part of an adze, used, for example, to cut and hollow out tree trunks. Text: Ulrich Menter

Data Provider
Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
Show only fields containing data

Cataloguing data

Object type
Dechsel
Dimensions
Length: 30 cm
Width: 9 cm
Height: 5 cm
Material/Technique
Stone
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
117338

Provenance and sources

when
19th century
where
Hawaii
when
1939
who
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Provenance
The adze blade (old inv. no. VI 2221) traces back to the collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin and came to the Linden-Museum in 1939 through an object exchange with Arthur Speyer. The earlier provenance of the object is currently unknown. Text: Ulrich Menter

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED

Related objects

Dechsel
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
This content was machine-translated
2.2 / 7.2