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Songye

Ceremonial Axe

Songye, 1800-1899

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Songye

Ceremonial Axe

Songye, 1800-1899

Physical Qualities Iron, copper alloy and wood, 44 x 22.7 x 3.3 D cm.
Credit Line Gift of Emerson Markham, Temple Hills, Maryland
Object Number 2002.618
Club-like handle, with blade in arc shape with top end square and a spur on the bottom end; with three flat supports: one face on upper and lower, and one face on each side of central support with spurs along support.

Culture

Songye

2000–2000

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