Summary
This hafted pick is made with a stone blade embedded in resin within a wooden handle. The handle is bound with vegetable fibre string at two points below the head and at the end of the handle.
Physical Description
A tomahawk with a stone head hafted to a wooden handle.
More Information
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Object/Medium
Axe, hafted
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Maker
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Object Measurements
520 mm (Length), 200 mm (Width), 65 mm (Height)
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Acquisition Information
Presented from Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer & Francis James Gillen
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Collecting Areas
Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands