Axe

Museum number:
10-2256
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.541
Description:
Beheading axe; wood shaft covered with ornamental pierced brass stripes; long steel ferrule; brass end; wood spear; 23¾ inches long
Donor:
Roy Franklin Barton
Collection place:
Mountain Province, Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon Island
Culture or time period:
Kalinga
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
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1957-1958 #2: University of California, Riverside (April 2, 1958–November 25, 1958), S1961-1962 #59: Department of Anthropology (UC Davis) (April 4, 1962–October 17, 1962), S1962-1963 #56: Oakland Public Museum (May 17, 1963–February 25, 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 10-2256, described as Beheading axe; wood shaft covered with ornamental pierced brass stripes; long steel ferrule; brass end; wood spear; 23¾ inches long
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Axe, accession number 10-2256, described as Beheading axe; wood shaft covered with ornamental pierced brass stripes; long steel ferrule; brass end; wood spear; 23¾ inches long

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