Local Name

Ngupamurra

Physical Description

Ground edge axe hafted onto a cylindrical piece of wood with beeswax. The handle and hafted area have been decorated with painted designs of bands of black, white, yellow-brown, and red-brown ochre. The beeswax mount has been painted with a multi-coloured dot pattern. MATERIAL: wood; stone; wax; ochre. TECHNIQUE: flaked; ground; hafted; painted; cemented.

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