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Louis Ledoux: Papua New Guinea Collection

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Axe, Lower Sepik River

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Start price: $500

Estimated price: $1,000 - $1,500

Buyer's premium: 28%

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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

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Pitt Rivers Museum
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/axe-papua-new-guinea