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| Object Number: | 2003-32-328 |
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Marquesan |
| Provenience: | Marquesas Islands |
| Date Made: | Before 1900 |
| Early Date: | 1890 |
| Late Date: | Before 1900 |
| Section: | Oceanian |
| Materials: | Stone Wood Plant Fiber |
| Height: | 45.6 |
| Width: | 21.1 |
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number: | 1995.X.16607 - Other Number 13247 - Other Number 1438 - Other Number CIVIC1995.X.16607 - Other Number |
Description
Roughly shaped stone blade, tanged, with triangular cross-section. Attached to forked wooden haft by criss-crossed lashings of braided plant fiber. Fragments of blue-edged stickers from L'Exposition universelle de Paris, 1900, one of which could read "Hac[hette] "du Nu[ku Hiva] Marq[uesas].
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