- 2 Frassetto Way - Lincoln Park, NJ 07035
March Curated Spring Fling Estate Auction
Lot 162:
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-20th 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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