Adze
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Aug 1892
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Adolphus C. Good
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HANDLE WOODEN, CURVED, MADE FROM A BRANCH ABOUT 2 CM.D. WITH PART OF THE TRUNK ATTACHED. BLADE IRON, 1.5 CM W. LASHED TO HANDLE WITH SEVERAL TURNS OF PLANT FIBER (RATTAN?). CALLED NGWAH (P1. MENGWAK), MOST IMPORTANT TOOL. IN THE FORM IN WHICH I SEND IT SERVES FOR SUCH WORK AS MAKING THE BOWLS AND CURVED PARTS OF THE BELLOWS, ALSO THE BOARD FOR THE GAME KALE (NO. 9) WAS MADE ALMOST ENTIRELY WITH THIS TOOL. OR SET ON A STRAIGHT HANDLE IT BECOMES THE CHISEL WITH WHICH (NO.8) WAS HOLLOWED OUT AND SET ON A STILL LONGER HANDLE IT WAS USED IN DIGGING OUT THE BIG DRUM (NO. 1)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Gabon, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fang
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025654
label: USNM Number
content: E169335-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Handle
content: 2 cm
label: Width - Blade
content: 1.5 cm