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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, wood, 43 x 23.5 x 3.3 D cm.
Credit Line Gift of Emerson Markham, Temple Hills, Maryland
Object Number 2002.619
Club-shaped handle; blade in arc shape with rounded end at top and a spur at the bottom with three supports: upper in the shape of a twisted rope, lower a rectangular solid, and center in two strips with two human faces each.

Culture

Songye

2000–2000

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