- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone tool
- Date
- Date collected
- By 1942
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1942
- Materials and processes
- Material Chert Stone, Process Flaked
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.13.1858 Other numbers: 108
- Research and responses
This Jeffreys collection of stone tools from Nigeria was written about in a thesis by Oliver Wharton an undergraduate student at the University of Oxford, copy in the researchers file. [ZM 7/9/2005]
Search terms: Tool
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