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Übersee-Museum Bremen Ozeanien Ethnographische Sammlungen [D00327]
D00327 Zeremonialbeil | ruatangaeo (Übersee-Museum Bremen CC BY-SA)
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D00327 ceremonial axe | ruatangaeo

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The ceremonial adze has a hollow handle that looks like a tower and becomes a little narrower towards the top. The pointed blade made of stone is wrapped with coconut fiber in the back part and tied to the handle.

Literature

  • Dale Idiens: Cook Islands Art, Shire Ethnography, Buuckinghmshire: Shire Publications S. 41/42 "Ceremonial adzes continued to be made in the nineteenth century to satisfy the European souvenir trade, and increasingly large and elaborate handles of pierced and stepped pedestal form became fashionable to meet this demand.".
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