Ceremonial Axe
52-42-40
From: New Guinea | Enga Province | Wabag
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 52-42-40 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mae-Enga |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Enga Province | Wabag |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Stone | Wood | Peel |
| Description | Wooden shaft. Wooden head tapering to small knob; plainted split reed binding over junction with shaft and with blade. Large thin stone blade with rounded cutting edge; straight sides contracting to rounded butt which fits into the wooden head. |
| Credit Line | New Guinea Ethnological Reconnaissance; Ward Goodenough, 1952 |
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