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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum 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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Anvil, museum number 18-744, described as pyramidal shaped iron pin anvil embedded on disc shaped section of log; possibly riveting anvil
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Awl, museum number 18-651, described as Awl steel, triangular with wood handle. To put finishing touches (”polish”) gold. Used with 18-650. Length 9.9 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Awl, museum number 18-650, described as Awl of steel, round with wood knob handle. To put finishing touches (“polish”) gold. Used with 18-651. Length 12 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Back of loom, museum number 18-1705, described as Back support for loom; rounded length of light weight wood with concave hollowed-out section in middle
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Base, museum number 18-748b, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bastard file, museum number 18-622, described as Bastard file, half-round, double-cut; four inch, local manufacture, wood knob handle. Goldsmith’s tool. Overall length 15 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bastard file, museum number 18-623, described as Bastard file, half-round, double-cut; four inch, local manufacture, wood knob handle. Goldsmith’s tool. Overall length 15 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bellows, museum number 18-671, described as Pump bellows of wood; covered rectangular box on four legs. Used by goldsmith; obsolete. Length 68.3 cm. Height 34.7 cm. Width 23.3 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Blowpipe, museum number 18-669, described as Blowpipe of steel tubing. Used by goldsmith. Length 37 cm.