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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.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Steinbeil
Dimensions
Length: 525.0 mm
Material/Technique
Shell, Coconut fibre, Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1413

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1900
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    24.04.1900
    who
    Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Nauru (location/origin)
    Micronesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    who
    Brandeis, Antonie - Collectors
    Kaiser, Ludwig - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
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. 145 (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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