Greenstone Ax Blade

D'Entrecasteaux Islands
Papua New Guinea

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collected 1880

Green stone

Overall: 6 1/8 × 3 1/4 × 13/16 in. (15.5 × 8.2 × 2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Richard Jaquith Fowle, Class of 1934

172.1.25280

Geography

Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

19th century

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Richard Jaquith Fowle (1912-1972, Class of 1934), Thetford, Vermont; given to present collection, 1972.

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