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Dechsel

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 original at data provider

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

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Museum of Ethnology; 2029
  • Production
    when
    19th century
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Hawaii
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

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