Axe
P1845
From: Australia | South Australia | Cooper's Creek (Australia)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | P1845 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Australia | South Australia | Cooper's Creek (Australia) |
| Period | Late Colonial Australia Period |
| Date Made | 1850-1900 CE |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Stone | Wood | Gum | Hair |
| Description | A wooden handled axe with a stone axe head. The handle is carved wood with shallow fluting and splits off at the bottom to create a two-pronged handle. Two bands of braided hair are wrapped around the handle. The axe head is semicircular in shape and attached to the handle with gum. “Dug out canoes, made from tree trunks, burnt out and finished with the axe, are used by tribes in lake districts of Gippsland, I have not heard of their use elsewhere.” (Collector’s Object List) |
| Length | 42 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of J. T. Huston, 1907 |
| Other Number | 11 - Other Number |
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