ground stone axe or adze
- Title:
- ground stone axe or adze
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- Charles Fred Hartt
- Date:
- 400-1600AD
- Site:
- Tapajós, Brazil
- Location:
- Tapajós, Brazil
- Country:
- Brazil
- ID Number:
- Anthr1870_007_0006_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 870.7.6
- File Name:
- Anthr1870_007_0006_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Santarem
- Style/Period:
- Santarém
Pre-Columbian South American styles and periods - Work Type:
- axes (tools)
adzes - Materials/Techniques:
- brown stone with large reddish crystals throughout
- Subject:
- indians of south america
Brazil
antiquities (object genre) - Measurement:
- 8.7 x 7.6 x 3.5 (centimeters)
- Description:
- finely ground and polished
thin, flattened butt
flattened edges
two mounted grooves, one on either side not far below butt
Pl. I, fig. 18, written on one side. - Bibliography:
- Anna Roosevelt (ed.), Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present: Anthropological Perspectives (University of Arizona Press, 1994)
Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, Moundbuilders of the Amazon: Geophysical Archaeology on Marajo Island, Brazil (Academic Press, 1991)
C. F. Hartt, "Contribuicões para a ethnologia do valle do Amazonas," Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 6: 1-174. - Archival Collection:
- Amazonian ceramics
- Format:
- Image
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