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1884.126.97

Tool or weapon of ground stone, roughly wedge shaped. [MJD 21/01/2013]

1884.126.97

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Collection type
Object
Description
Tool or weapon of ground stone, roughly wedge shaped. [MJD 21/01/2013]
Geographical reference
Ghana
Africa > Western Africa > Ghana
Bight of Benin
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1874
Date collected
By 1874
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked, Process Ground
Dimensions
Thick: max 21 mm, Width: max 31 mm, Length: max 54 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.126.97 PR Cat other PR nos: 1393
Research and responses

See research notes for 1928.68.449-454 and the suggestion that these objects may have been obtained from John Lubbock [Lord Avebury] and published in 1870. [AS 11/03/2010]

Search terms: Tool, Weapon, Axe

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