Axe

Museum number:
10-2254
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.541
Description:
Beheading axe; metal band; palmwood handle; metal ferrule; slim blade.
Donor:
Roy Franklin Barton
Collection place:
Mountain Province, Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon Island
Culture or time period:
Ifugao
Collector:
Roy Franklin Barton
Collection date:
before 1918
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ceremonial axes (ceremonial weapons), Ceremonial axes (tools), and Ceremonial axes (weapons)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1918
Context of use:
Axe used for beheading.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1964-1965 #22: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (October 26, 1964–October 26, 1964) and S1965-1966 #38: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (November 9, 1965–November 9, 1965)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Axe, accession number 10-2254, described as Beheading axe; metal band; palmwood handle; metal ferrule; slim blade.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Axe, accession number 10-2254, described as Beheading axe; metal band; palmwood handle; metal ferrule; slim blade.

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