Object Number | 2003-32-328 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Marquesan |
Provenience | Marquesas Islands |
Date Made | Before 1900 |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Stone | Wood | Plant Fiber |
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]. |
Height | 45.6 cm |
Width | 21.1 cm |
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 |
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