Axe, Lower Sepik River
Wooden axe with intricate rattan design.
The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, UK, describes a similar axe collected by Michael Leahy before 1937 (accession no. 1937.39.33) thus: "Isolated New Guinea peoples predominately used stone technology until Australian colonists introduced steel tools in the mid-2oth century."
Locale:: Lower Sepik River
Country: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1936 or earlier
Material: wood, rattan
Dimensions: L 17" x W 6", handle is L 20"
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
Similar items:
Pitt Rivers Museum
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/axe-papua-new-guinea
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Wooden axe with intricate rattan design.
The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, UK, describes a similar axe collected by Michael Leahy before 1937 (accession no. 1937.39.33) thus: "Isolated New Guinea peoples predominately used stone technology until Australian colonists introduced steel tools in the mid-2oth century."
Locale:: Lower Sepik River
Country: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1936 or earlier
Material: wood, rattan
Dimensions: L 17" x W 6", handle is L 20"
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
Similar items:
Pitt Rivers Museum
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/axe-papua-new-guinea
