Hafted tools weapons series
This series is only listed in the blue book. It was displayed on Screen 10 at Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums.
Blue Book number |
PRM accession number |
Blue book entry |
Blue 732 - 744 |
1884.23.1-15 |
732 - 744 Wood implements (13) armed with sharks' teeth shewing two modes of fastening on the teeth. King's Mill Island |
Blue 745 |
1884.23.17 |
745 Two large shark's teeth hafted in bone |
Blue 746 |
1884.23.19 |
746 Carved implement with groove for shark's teeth (teeth wanting) New Zealand |
Blue 747 |
1884.19.68 |
Screen 10 747 Wooden javelin (633) |
Blue 748 - 752 |
1884.19.54-55 1884.118.67 |
748 - 52 Bone pointed javelins (5) Various parts of S Seas Is |
Blue 753 |
1884.118.69 |
753 Bone pointed javelin Solomon Is |
Blue 754 |
1884.19.329 |
754 Omitted [added note: Two pointed arrows, Icy Cape Sir E. Belcher (860)] |
Blue 755 |
1884.19.20 |
755 Stone flake hafted as a spear point N Australia |
Blue 756 - 760 & ?Delivery Catalogue I 125 |
1884.19.16, 19 |
756 - 60 Flakes hafted on to points of javelins with gum (5) Australia |
Blue 765-771 |
1884.19.26-32 |
765 - 771 Lances plain points of obsidian New Guinea and Admiralty Is |
Blue 772 |
1884.19.349 |
772 Lance, leaf-shaped green chert point Esquimaux obtained by Sir E Belcher |
Blue 773 |
1884.140.922 |
773 Arrow with red chert point Esquimaux Obtained by Sir E Belcher |
Blue 774 |
Not matched |
Stone disc hafted as a mushroom headed club Cape York N Australia |
Blue 775 |
1884.12.208 |
775 Perforated stone ball on stick Solomon Is |
Blue 786 or 787 |
1884.33.57 & Not matched |
786 or 787 Stone celt hafted in a bent withy [for 787 - with gum] Australia |
Blue 788 |
1884.120.66 |
788 Iron axe (European) hafted in native fashion in a bent withy with gum Queensland |
Blue 789 - 790 |
1884.33.10 & Not matched |
789 - 90 Knives of flint flakes stuck in gum King George's Sound W Australia |
Blue 791 - 792 |
Not matched |
Mogo or stone axes, hafted in gum W. Australia |
Blue 793 |
1884.140.967 .1 1884.140.967 .2 |
793 Stone celt with flat end hafted in a bent withy |
Blue 794 |
Not matched |
Stone celt hafted in a bent stick bound with grass Ojibbuway [sic] Indians N America |
Blue 795 |
Not matched |
Haft for stone axe bound with sennit ?Marquesas |
Blue 796 |
Not matched |
Shell adze Marquesas |
Blue 797 |
Not matched |
Stone adze marked Nootka Sound ?from Society Is |
Blue 798 |
Not matched |
Stone adze Sandwich Is |
Blue 799 or 801 |
1884.126.38 |
?799 Stone adze Society Is or 801 Small stone adze Society Is |
Blue 800 |
Not matched |
Haft for stone adze Nootka Sound |
Blue 801 |
Not matched |
801 Small stone adze Society Is |
Blue 802 |
Not matched |
Large stone adze Caroline Is S. Pacific |
Blue 803 |
Not matched |
Jade Axe New Caledonia |
Blue 804 |
Not matched |
Jade Axe New Caledonia |
Blue 805 |
Not matched |
Jade Axe, very fine Solomon Is |
Blue 806 |
Not matched |
R[eturned] 2/8/83 Nephrite adze Solomon Is Added note: "Nephrite (Gr Nephites = like the kidney) sub species of jade occurring in granite and gneiss green, hard, tenacious Formerly worn as a remedy for kidney diseases |
Blue 807 |
Not matched |
Haft for axe locality not known |
Blue 808 |
1884.33.19 |
808. Iron adze, Africa |
Blue 809 - 801 |
Not matched |
809& 10 Palaeolithic implements from St Acheul illustrating M Boucher de Perthe's method of hafting stone |
Blue 811 |
1884.123.912.1-5 |
811 Tray containing stone celt found in bog near Carrickfergus |
AP, March 2011