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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1938.1.124.a-b Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name adze Description Ceremonial adze made of wood, openwork haft of typical design and coconut fibre plaited binding. No blade, instead a wooden blade (b), separate. Fourteen feet, one missing. A small piece of fish skin was used to secure the blade to the haft, under the fibre lashing. Index card: Note the 1938.1.123 dd card says 'stone blade missing' but [Rev William Wyatt] Gill refers to wood heads as used in carpenters funerals for digging up the ground in a dramatisation of grief. See also R.1938.1.124. Production place Polynesia, Cook Islands, Mangaia Production period 19th Century Material wood, fish skin, coconut fibre Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:R.1938.1.124.a-b
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

adze
Description

Ceremonial adze made of wood, openwork haft of typical design and coconut fibre plaited binding. No blade, instead a wooden blade (b), separate. Fourteen feet, one missing. A small piece of fish skin was used to secure the blade to the haft, under the fibre lashing. Index card: Note the 1938.1.123 dd card says 'stone blade missing' but [Rev William Wyatt] Gill refers to wood heads as used in carpenters funerals for digging up the ground in a dramatisation of grief. See also R.1938.1.124.
Production place

Polynesia, Cook Islands, Mangaia
Production period

19th Century
Material

wood, fish skin, coconut fibre

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