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Stone axe with handle

Item consists of a stone blade and a handle made from a thin, split tree trunk, bent in two and covering the thickened end of the blade, to which it is attached with a resinous composition (Triodia resin). Presented to Yashchenko in Adelaide

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Details

Collector/creator
Alexander Yashchenko
Time collected
1903
Location collected
Warumungu people, Tennant Creek, Central Australia
Transfer history
Russian Geographical Society, Saint Petersburg > >
Current museum
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
Time deposited to current museum
1905
Current museum number
921-20
Material
Stone, wood, resin
Measurements
Blade length 13 cm, width 9.5 cm, butt thickness 2.5 cm, length of the two parts of the handle 28 и 30.5 cm.
Source/publication/study
Kabo 1960; Kabo 1963; Barratt 1982