Kavilali blade
- Museum number:
- 11-40431
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110040431
- Accession number:
- Acc.2006
- Description:
- Blade; gray stone; polishing on both sides; length 18 cm. Used as both adze and axe for scraping out the inside of a dug-out. Archaeological patination. Native name: kavilali (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:
- Kavilali blades
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1965
- Department:
- Oceania
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