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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 5-6895, described as Native name: Erokun Adze; solid wood handle bent with sharp angle inserted into curved iron blade; l. 29 cm. Used and made by men to work wooden bowls and pots.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 2-4048, described as Stone, with wooden handle. Grey nephrite blade, spruce root binding.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 2-4045, described as Adze with stone blade hafted with rawhide to short wood handle. Black. Made of stone, wood, rawhide thong.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 5-7089, described as Iron headed axe, slot hafted triangular shaped axe head; wooden handle with bulbous knob at one end for axe head. 50 cms length.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 11-38519, described as Adze with greenstone blade attached to wood handle; rattan binding; used mainly for shaping Casuarina wood planks for houses and as a general cutting tool carried around by the men hooked over one shouler or over the head (in the carrying net on long trips). Women sometimes also owned adzes but carry them only in the net. For splitting the Casuarina they use wood wedges driven with a stone into sections of trunk cut with the adze. Casuarina trees are individually owned near the village but village owned further away. Adzes also used for cutting firewood. The men’s houses have more and better planks than the dwellings. Casuarina is the only non food-producing tree of sufficient importance to be regarded as property to be owned and controlled. Adzes are also used as weapons in brawls. No axes are used or known
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 11-40325, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 11-24988, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 2-15585, described as Notched adze made of hard, black stone.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 11-40323, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 11-40326, no description available.