Adze Blade
P4637
From: New Zealand
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | P4637 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Zealand |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Greenstone |
| Description | Large adze blade (toki). "Of jade [greenstone]". Old paper label stuck on blade, incomplete and difficult to read but apparently tracing its ownership history. Includes the date 1883 and reference to having been buried at the site of a Pa, now the property of J. A. Mac Mahon (signer of the note.) |
| Length | 25 cm |
| Width | 10.5 cm |
| Thickness | 2.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1912 |
| Other Number | 2-795 uncetain - Dealer's Number |
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