Shell blade lashed to a wooden heft

Made:: New Zealand

Shell blade lashed to a wooden heft, Maori, New Zealand
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Shell blade lashed to a wooden heft, Maori, New Zealand

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A232884

Materials:: shell, wood and cord

Measurements:: length 132 mm
haft: width 13 mm

type:: tattooing chisels

credit:: Glendining

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