1928.69.1671

Collection type

Object

Description

Ground stone axe.

Geographical reference

India

Asia > Southern Asia > India

Assam Arunachal Pradesh Noa Dihing River Ningru Village

Person

Field collector James Philip Mills

PRM source James Philip Mills

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1934

Date collected

By 1934

Acquisition information

Donated: 1934, uncertain

Materials and processes

Material Gneiss Stone

Dimensions

Width: max 48 mm, Length: max 84 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1928.69.1671

Associated publications

This is one of the stone tools described by A.A. Ashraf on page 5 of Prehistoric Arunachal as follows: 'There is an important collection of Stone tools from Arunachal Pradesh which have been preserved in the Pitt River [sic] Museum, Oxford. These were collected by J.P. Mills and J.H. Grace [sic note this should be Crace] during 1933-35. The first scientific report of this collection was made by A.H. Dani in 1960. In 1966, T.C. Sharma also studied the collection and pointed out that 10 specimens out of 16 are made on varieties of locally available rocks such as, sand stone, basalt, gneiss, schist and talcose. The rest of the implements are made on jadeite which is not locally available and thus these implements, according to him, reached Arunachal Pradesh either from north Burma or China.' [Itanagar, 1990] [ZM 21/11/2011] Illustrated (black and white drawings) as figure 27 on plate 9 in Prehistory and Protohistory of Eastern India by A.H. Dani (India: Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, 1960). Classified by Dani on page 61 as a 'Unifacially ground edged type', caption (same page) reads: 'Pl. 9, no. 27:- Collected by J.P. Mills. Ningru near Noa Dihing river. 1933. Gneiss. In cross-section it is lenticular, with broad faces ground slightly convexly.' [ZM 22/11/2011]

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