adze, bamboo head and carved wooden handle. Sago pounder, Abelam, New Guinea
Donor:
Morton D. May
Collection place:
Middle Sepik river, East Sepik Province, Momase Region
Culture or time period:
New Guinea, Papua Island
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Adzes
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1966-1967 #96: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 20, 1967–April 20, 1967), S1967-1968 #61: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (November 17, 1967–November 17, 1967), S1967-1968 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968), and S1970-1971 #149: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (June 25, 1971–July 9, 1971)