Axe
29-50-512
From: New Guinea | Tambunum
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-512 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Tambunum |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Stone | Wood | Peel |
| Description | Stone blade, wood handle, rattan peel lashings.The blade is bound between two pieces of wood which are in turn lashed to the shorter arm of an "L" formed by the trunk and branch of a sapling or the larger and smaller branches of a tree. |
| Length | 74.5 cm |
| Width | 43.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 614 - Other Number |
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