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Tool’s handle. Oroche

Title:

Tool’s handle

Ethnic groups:

Oroche

Territory:

river Tumnin, Ussuri Krai, Soviet harbor, village Akur-Data

Date:

late 19th - early 20th century

Collectors-person:
Arseniev Vladimir K.
Material:

Wood

Dimensions:

length 32.0

Number:

РЭМ 1870-19

Annotation:

Adze’s handle, wooden, with a natural curvature. The adze was an essential wood processing tool. The nose pieces could be of iron or stone, and the handles were carved from one piece of wood of a specially selected shape.

Albums:
“... You can rely on me”: Vladimir Arseniev’s collections in the Russian Museum of Ethnography
Rus:
Рукоятка инструмента. Орочи