Axe has a wooden handle, round in cross-section, pointed at one end and with a thick lump of very hard resin at the other; two unworked pieces of diorite are sunk into the resin on opposite sides. Both stones show no obvious traces of human processing.
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Details
- Time collected
- Before 1931
- Location collected
- Australia
- Transfer history
- Naval Museum, Saint Petersburg > >
- Current museum
- Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
- Time deposited to current museum
- 1931
- Current museum number
- 4301-8
- Material
- Stone, wood, resin
- Measurements
- Axe length 14 cm, width 8 cm; handle length 32 cm, diameter 1.7 cm
- Source/publication/study
- Kabo 1962; Kabo 1963