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axe

The axe consists of a double-edged stone blade and a handle made of two light-coloured bamboo halves. The stone is bound to the handle with plant fibres.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
hatchets
Dimensions
Partial dimensions (blade): 8.2 x 4.5 x 22.7 cm Partial dimensions (handle halves): 36.5 cm Partial dimensions (handle halves): 32.7 cm
Material/Technique
Stone; bamboo; plant fibre carved; hewn; plaited
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D09097
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D09097

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1910
    where
    Bougainville
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections
Secondary literature
O. Finsch Hamburg 1914: Tafel XV Abb. 314 B.Blackwood Oxford 1935: Plate 65 (gegenüber 403) S. 404

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