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.
