dao

Axe or chopper, dao. Metal blade of basic triangular shape: short, single edged curved blade, with rectangular wing on the back/top side: the blade slightly cracked below the wing. The haft recessed for a third of its length from the blade end, covered with a short reinforcing metal cylinder around haft-end where the blade is inserted, next to a gap revealing splits in wooden haft, and followed by a long band of narrow fibre strips bound and plaited on, with traces of dark resin, and a short band of plaited cane strips. One side of the haft end decorated with 15 rows of three long black hair tufts. Traces of resin on the half.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
16.3
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 730.25 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; cane; iron; resin; basketry
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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