Blade; gray stone; one side polished, the other side partly polished; length 7 cm. Adze blade for wood working. Used for cutting out holes and grooves, as in the making of a canoe or a yam house or a house. Native name: ginesosu (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
Object class:
Ginesosu blades
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits