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Description: | Ceremonial adze from Mangaia in the Cook Islands. It has a stone adze blade and decorative binding and carving. The shaft is carved in a K-pattern. The item is post-European and made for trade. Formerly in the collections of the London Missionary Society.
(Tokelau). Section of handle missing. Piece missing from adze blade. Two tag labels - ?Stone adze?. One recent ?BM list (1) Adze?. See Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter H, Buck) 'Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands' 1944. Condition - chip on side of head, some damage to handle. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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