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Harvesting knife (<em>hu</em> 笏), fragment
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Harvesting knife (<em>hu</em> 笏), fragment

ca. 5000-ca. 1700 BCE · Jade (nephrite)

From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Ceremonial implement; long, thin, trapezoidal blade form with sharp, beveled cutting edge; three conical perforations near upper edge, smaller one below; short ends diagonal; translucent, mottled light blue and greenish gray with brown and black markings, brown area at one end with red veinings; irregularly cut. (Breaks, chips on edges.)

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own description
Subjects
Ceremonial objects
Credit lineHarvesting knife (<em>hu</em> 笏), fragment. ca. 5000-ca. 1700 BCE. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
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