IMAGE
Stone adzes from Horowhenua region
- Date
- 12 April 1931
- Reference
- PA1-f-009-172
- Description
Three types of stone adze, in the possession of Mr R A Prouse, Levin.
Specimen on left: splay, broad-edged shape, from Turakina. Length 4 inches, breadth 2.75 inches, cutting edge 2.75 inches, breadth of butt 1.75 to 2 inches, thickness 1 inch, colour black with faint mottlings.
Specimen in centre: from Mr J Hill's run, Hokio Beach Road, Levin. Rudely chipped except close to cutting edge; triangular cross-section; length 5.75 inches, breadth 2 inches, cutting edge 2 inches, thickness 1.25 inches; of black, cherty, fine-grained greywacke or indurated argillite.
Specimen on right: from R A Prouse's garden, Makomako Road East, Weraroa. Fine cutting edge and well-ground bevels meeting at a rather obtuse angle; cutting edge narrows in; length 6.375 inches, breadth 1.625, cutting edge 1.125 inches, butt 2.25 inches long & breadth from 1 to 1.25 inches, thickness 1.75 inches; of light green chertose rock with patches of black carbonaceous argillite (almost certainly from Tararua range).
(Source of information: original album caption). Photograph taken 12 April 1931 by G L Adkin.
Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Three types of stone adze, in possession of Mr R A Prouse, Levin.... 12.4.31
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 93 x 156 mm mounted on album page
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua / Adkin album 27
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Gelatin silver prints, Silver gelatin print 93 x 156 mm mounted on album page
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