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adze handle

The adze handle consists of a long wooden stick that bends in an L-shape at one end. This part is significantly shorter, wider and partially wrapped in rattan.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
hatchets
Dimensions
General: 29 × 5.8 × 52 cm
Material/Technique
Wood; Rotang
carved; polished; plaited
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D06577
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D06577

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Papua New Guinea
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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