Axe

Museum number:
11-1007
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.18
Description:
Greenstone axeblade and carved wooden handle. Axe with greenstone blade, length of blade is 14.3 cm.; w. 10.8 cm.; rattan binding; V-shaped carved wooden handle, one side measures 72 cm, the other 45 cm.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Massim region, Papua Region, Papua New Guinea
Verbatim coll. place:
New Guinea
Culture or time period:
Massim
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Axes (stone tools)
Function:
1.3 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Accession date:
November 26, 1901
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1929: Los Angeles Natural History Museum (May 1929–1945), S1985-1986 #47: Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale Univ.) (April 1, 1986–July 31, 1986), S1985-1986 #48: Jagiellonian University, Poland (October 1, 1986–March 31, 1987), S1985-1986 #49: Warsaw Museum of Asia and the Pacific (1987–1987), and S1985-1986 #9: Arizona State Museum (September 20, 1985–February 7, 1986)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Axe, accession number 11-1007, described as Greenstone axeblade and carved wooden handle. Axe with greenstone blade, length of blade is 14.3 cm.; w. 10.8 cm.; rattan binding; V-shaped carved wooden handle, one side measures 72 cm, the other 45 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Axe, accession number 11-1007, described as Greenstone axeblade and carved wooden handle. Axe with greenstone blade, length of blade is 14.3 cm.; w. 10.8 cm.; rattan binding; V-shaped carved wooden handle, one side measures 72 cm, the other 45 cm.

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