Skip to content
Pitt Rivers Museum
AboutHire the MuseumNewsletterUniversity of Oxford

1930.87.2

Tanged head of an axe or hoe of iron

1930.87.2

Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Terms and Conditions

If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.

Collection type
Object
Description
Tanged head of an axe or hoe of iron
Geographical reference
Kenya
Africa > Eastern Africa > Kenya
Lake Baringo area
Person
Field collector Kenneth G. Lindsay
PRM source Kenneth G. Lindsay
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1930
Date collected
By 1930
Acquisition information
Loaned: 1930
Materials and processes
Material Iron Metal, Process Forged (Metal)
Dimensions
Width: max 53 mm, Length: max 220 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1930.87.2
Research and responses

Lake Baringo, lake in west-central Kenya. It is situated 3,200 feet (975 m) above sea level in the Great Rift Valley, east of the Kamasia (Ilkamasya) Hills. [Encyclopaedia Britannica on line] [AP 3/11/2000]

Search terms: Weapon, Tool, Agriculture and Horticulture, Axe, Hoe, Agricultural Tool

Further items to explore