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Tool Handle

Object Number:CG920114-8364
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Borneo (uncertain)
Section:Oceanian
Materials:Wood
Hide (uncertain)
Peel
Length: 42.5 cm
Width: 9.4 cm

Description

Farming tool haft? Soft light wood (balsa?) handle, into which a wooden haft is inserted. Lashings, consisting of peel over some of which a hide (?) covering is bound with cord. At the end of the soft wood handle is a projection with a hole, through which runs a loop of two-strand twisted fiber cord. Now detached.

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