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Übersee-Museum Bremen Ozeanien Ethnographische Sammlungen [D11053]
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D11053 adze

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Adze with wooden handle and blade made of tridacna shell, which are connected by a plant fiber rope. In the past, people in Micronesia mostly used shell blades, since appropriate stone were usually not available.

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