Adze, Australia, Desert North

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Item X 97275 Nyarli | Adze, hafted. Warlpiri. Yuendumu, Desert North, Northern Territory, Australia

Local Name

Nyarli

Physical Description

Carved cylindrical shaped adze tool. One end is sharpened file embedded in spinifex gum. Other end is a sharpened chisel cemented into spinifex gum.

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Object/Medium

Adze, hafted
Maker

Unrecorded
Cultural Groups

Warlpiri
Locality

Yuendumu, Desert North, Northern Territory, Australia
Collector

Mr Robert Edwards - Museum of Victoria
Date Collected

c.1995
Object Measurements

660 mm (Length), 90 mm (Width), 40 mm (Height)
Classification

Bunjilaka, Many nations, Working country
Date Made

1950s
Maker

Not Recorded
Clan/Language Group

Warlpiri
Place Made

Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Australia
Indigenous Region

Desert, Australia
Collection Names

The Christensen Fund Collection
Type of item

Object
Discipline

Anthropology
Category

First Peoples
Collecting Areas

Central and Western and South Australian Ethnographic

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Item X 97275 Nyarli | Adze, hafted. Warlpiri. Yuendumu, Desert North, Northern Territory, Australia

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