Stone axe | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Stone axe
Up until the advent of the use of steel, a European influence, clamshells were an important tool on the Marshall Islands. Typically, a piece of giant clamshell was used as a blade, which was bound to a wooden handle with coconut fibre string. Such hatchets were used for building boats, among other activities.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Steinbeil
Dimensions
Länge: 395.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1414
Provenance and sources
when
before 1900
when
24.04.1900
where
Nauru (location/origin)
Micronesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Provenance
Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Ludwig Kaiser on Nauru on behalf of Eugen and Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Ludwig Kaiser on Nauru on behalf of Eugen and Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit)
Object no. 146 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "Stone axe. Wood and tridacna shell".
The objects in the Brandeis collection from Nauru were apparently collected by the local district governor Ludwig Kaiser (SAF C3/241/1).
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