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| Basic information | Name: Wei-hui-fu (a) This is the name of an artifact made from meteoritic material. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1931 Country: China | ||||||||||||||||
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Writeup |
Writeup from MB 51:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. TWO ANCIENT CHINESE ART OBJECTS CONTAINING METEORITIC IRON BLADES Names: WEI-HUI-FU (a) and WEI-HUI-FU (b) Place of find: Wei-hui-fu, Honan Province, China. Date of find: 1931 Class and type: Iron. Wei-hui-fu(a) an octahedrite, Wei-hui-fu (b) uncertain. Provenance: Two ceremonial bronze objects in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, a broad axe and a dagger axe, were excavated from a Chou Dynasty site in 1931. Both objects have oxide remnants of iron blades that had been fabricated from meteoritic iron. Meteorite names Wei-hui-fu (a) for the broad axe blade (FGA 34.10) and Wei-hui-fu(b) for the dagger axe blade (FGA 34.11) have been assigned. Source: R. J. Gettens, R. S. Clarke, Jr. and W. T. Chase (1971). Two early Chinese bronze weapons with meteoritic iron blades. Freer Gallery of Art, Occasional Paper 4, number 1, 77 pages (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington). | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 51, Meteoritics 7, 215-232 (1972)
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