Polished stone axe used in slash-and-burn farming. Hafted to wooden handle; axe head notched and attached with heavy cordage. 25½ inches long; axe head: 5 3/4 inches long, 5 inches wide. Mashco, Peru.
Donor:
Harold M. Davis and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Peru
Verbatim coll. place:
Peru
Collector:
Harold M. Davis
Materials:
Palm wood
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Adzes
Accession date:
1962
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Loans:
S1963-1964 #60: UC Berkeley Extension (February 11, 1964–February 11, 1964), S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966), S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965), S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #91: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 13, 1967–April 13, 1967), S1967-1968 #61: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (November 17, 1967–November 17, 1967), S1967-1968 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968), S1970-1971 #149: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (June 25, 1971–July 9, 1971), and S1978-1979 #39: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Colleen Beck (January 17, 1979–March 31, 1979)