Kasivi blade

Museum number:
11-40468
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Accession number:
Acc.2006
Description:
Blade; dark gray stone; one side polished, the other side partly polished; length 16 cm. Used as adze blade for shaping a felled tree into a canoe, a round log, or a flat board. Archaeological patination. Native name: kasivi (attributed). Made of metamorphosed basalt.
Donor:
Bronislaw Malinowski and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua Region
Verbatim coll. place:
Melanesia; New Guinea; Massim area; Trobriand Islands
Culture or time period:
Massim
Collector:
Bronislaw Malinowski and Bruce D. Lawes
Collection date:
1914-1920
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Kasivi blades (planing adzes)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Oceania
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Kasivi blade, accession number 11-40468, described as Blade; dark gray stone; one side polished, the other side partly polished; length 16 cm. Used as adze blade for shaping a felled tree into a canoe, a round log, or a flat board. Archaeological patination. Native name: kasivi (attributed). Made of metamorphosed basalt.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Kasivi blade, accession number 11-40468, described as Blade; dark gray stone; one side polished, the other side partly polished; length 16 cm. Used as adze blade for shaping a felled tree into a canoe, a round log, or a flat board. Archaeological patination. Native name: kasivi (attributed). Made of metamorphosed basalt.

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