Object class: Ground stone / Collection place: Asia / Accession year: [Missing] - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 9-9335, described as Adze; long curved wood handle with flat iron blade; new piece added on; length 62.5cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 18-1101, described as Adze; woodworking tool. Handle: wood(”kayu belimbing,” “Averrhoa bilimbi” Linn.); shank: wood (”jerin tupai”) (”Pithecellobium microcarpum,” Benth); blade: steel; tie: rattan (”rotan tunggai”). Handle, round, wider at top, 83 cm. long; large split at top of handle. Shank, L-shaped. Blade, approximately 16 cm. long. Iron blade purchased in market, usually made by Chinese blacksmiths, but occasionally by Malays. Used for felling trees and shaping wood planks, especially in the manufacture of boats. Like an axe or adze (blade can be rotated to an angle). Handle in two pieces, the handle (”purdah”) and the shank (”sangul”). Before axes became common as trade item this tool was extensively used, presently used only for special purposes like shaping beams and boats. Made by men. Cost in U.S. dollars: 5.33.

Hearst Museum object titled Axe, accession number 9-19664, described as Round biface chopping device, possibly a small hand ax; Scm in diam

Hearst Museum object titled Axe, accession number 9-19615, described as Uniface, possibly handax; 11cm x 6.5cm

Hearst Museum object titled Celt, accession number 9-3684, described as Celt (?)

Hearst Museum object titled Celt, accession number 9-19049, described as Black modified tool, ground celt hammer fragment

Hearst Museum object titled Grinding stone, accession number 9-19401, described as Grinding stone, biface, almost disc shaped; 11cm

Hearst Museum object titled Grinding stone, accession number 9-19393, described as Grinding stone, biface, disc shaped; 10 cm in diam

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