Jade blade

Made:: New Zealand

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Jade blade, with 4 prongs, lashed to bone haft, Maori
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Jade blade, with 4 prongs, lashed to bone haft, Maori
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Jade blade, with 4 prongs, lashed to bone haft, Maori, New Zealand

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A132021

Materials:: bone, jade and cane

Measurements:: length 185 mm
haft: width 32 mm

type:: tattooing chisels

credit:: Glendining

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