- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Copper axe with thin cylindrical handle and blade tapering out to cutting edge, used as currency and for display. [El.B 06/04/2011]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1907
- Date collected
- Before 1907
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1907
- Materials and processes
- Material Copper Metal, Process Cast, Process Hammered, Process Smelted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 382 mm, Width: max 150 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1907.82.6
- Research and responses
In Balfour's diary of his 1907 trip to southern Africa [PRM ms collections] for September 6 1907 he remarks 'Met Mr. H.J. Carlisle + travelled with him a good deal of the way.' on 7 September 'Saw the train off again at 12.30 pm + arranged to see Carlisle at Bulawayo on my way through on Sunday week.' [unfortunately he doesnt seem to mention him further] [AP 22/09/2005]
Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) [Encyclopaedia Britannica on line]. However Congo Free State is now Zaïre. Due north of Kabwe is a small finger of Zaire stretching over the northern border of Zambia and this object might come from this area [AP 10/5/2000]
1907.82.6
Copper axe with thin cylindrical handle and blade tapering out to cutting edge, used as currency and for display. [El.B 06/04/2011]
1907.82.6
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