Adze
This carefully ground and polished adze would have taken a craftsman many hours of work to complete. It comes from Peru and would be likely to have been used to cut wood by farmers.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 25/1974/8
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Material
- nephrite
- Common Name
- adze
- Simple Name
- adze
- Production Country
- Peru
- Production Year Low
- 200BC
- Production Year High
- 600AD
