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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adobe fragment, museum number 1-256711, described as 1 adobe frag.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adobe fragments, museum number 1-256787, described as 2 adobe fragments
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adobe fragments, museum number 1-256668, described as 75 adobe fragments, straw tempered
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adornment, museum number 1-10314_DUP, described as 9 large quills tied to cotton string, 12 flicker feathers tied to string. Could also be processed quills and feathers being stored for future use.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 6-8085, described as Adze or ax blade of black mottled stone, small
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 11-42994, described as Adze. Wooden handle with tortoise shell blade.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 1-97763, described as Quartzite hand adze.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 6-8412, described as Slate adze blade. Length 4.5 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 11-42677a,b, described as a) wood handle b) stone blade, fiber bindi ng
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.