Tväryxa. Yxbladet av sten och med triangulär sektion. Skaftet består av en gren som utgör själva handtaget och en del av stammen av ett trä mot vilken yxbladet ligger an.
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På etikett: Sepik River New Guinea. 1951.
Stone adze. Generally in use by natives of hinterland of Papua & New Guinea. This artifact came from Upper Sepik 500-550 miles from the sea, where such implements are still in use at present. The stone head probably came from far inland by well-established "trade routes" giving immunity to the carriers of trade. Such stone implements are discarded as soon as steal tools are acquired.
Location: Yellow & Frieda Rivers, Tributaries of Sepik.
För jämförelse se: Leonhard Schultze Jena. Forschungen im Innern der Insel Neuguinea ( Bericht des Führers über die wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse der deutschen Grenzexpedition in das westliche Kaiser Wilhelmsland 1910). Berlin 1914. Fig. 20, p. 65. x)
-M. Mead: The Mountain Arapesh. I. An importing culture. (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. 36, pt. 3.) P. 316 (fig. 93a-g). New York 1938.
-J.W. van Nouhuys: Der Berstamm Pêsêgêm im Innern von Niederländisch-Neu Guinea. Taf. II:16. (Nova Guinea. Vol. VII:I.) Leiden 1913.
x) GEM Bild nr 13 757
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