New Guinea Axes/Adzes
In NG stone age isn´t long agoMaintaining stone adze during canoe-construction:1923: regrinding stone adzeNotice the very large axe/adze in the left foreground, the wood chips, and the holding...
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A friend of mine visited the area years ago and brought back a couple of adzesCool topic.Leo.
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Cool adzes Leo!I heard that nowadays many items are made only for sale for tourists. When did you purchase those adzes? You think they are the "real thing" intended for use?Best wishes!M.
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They are not mine but my friend´s. Anyway i had the chance to hold them in my hands and have a closer look at them and they seem to be the real thing; in fact you can see one of them with a broken...
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Thanks, interesting!Here`s a bit from Heinrich Harrer, in 1962 he explored "Jelime", the source of an extremly hard blue-black stone used for axes by the Dani tribe those...
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