Utukema blade

Museum number:
11-40523
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2006
Description:
Blade; gray stone, lightly streaked; polishing on both sides; length 8 cm. Used for cutting away small scrub when the soil was cleared for gardens. Possibly a planing blade worn out from long use. Inserted in axe-shaped and adze-shaped handles indiscriminately. Archaeological patination. Native name: utukema (attributed). Made of metamorphosed basalt.
Donor:
Bronislaw Malinowski and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua Region
Culture or time period:
Massim
Collector:
Bronislaw Malinowski and Bruce D. Lawes
Collection date:
1914-1920
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.3 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Oceania
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Utukema blade, accession number 11-40523, described as Blade; gray stone, lightly streaked; polishing on both sides; length 8 cm. Used for cutting away small scrub when the soil was cleared for gardens. Possibly a planing blade worn out from long use. Inserted in axe-shaped and adze-shaped handles indiscriminately. Archaeological patination. Native name: utukema (attributed). Made of metamorphosed basalt.

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