ko'i

Language: unknown
Language: unknown
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 only fields containing data

Cataloguing data

Object type
Dechsel
Dimensions
Länge: 30 cm, Breite: 9 cm, Höhe: 5 cm
Material/Technique
Stone
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
117338

Provenance and sources

when
19th century

where
Hawaii

when
1939
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
This content was machine-translated
2.1.1 / 7.1