Adze
58-17-26
From: New Guinea | Western Highlands, New Guinea (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 58-17-26 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Western Highlands, New Guinea (uncertain) |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Stone | Wood | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Polished wooden shaft coming to a point. Polished head straight except for slight flaring at end. Shaft and head joined with bark-like fiber hafting. Blade wedged and glued in; of heavy green stone (jadeite?), well polished. Straight sides flaring slightly toward cutting edge which is a little rounded. Blade is flattened elipse in X-section. |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Harry B. Wright, 1958 |
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