Adze

Museum number:

11-160

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Accession number:

Acc.25

Description:

Turtle bone adze, hafted.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Caroline Islands

Verbatim coll. place:

Nukuor; Carolines

Culture or time period:

Micronesian

Collector:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Materials:

Bone (material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Adzes

Function:

1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits

Accession date:

December 15, 1901

Department:

Oceania

Loans:

S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960), S1958-1959 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (April 3, 1959–unknown), and S1976-1977 #11: Department of Nutritional Sciences (UC Berkeley) (September 17, 1976–March 1978)

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