- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ground stone axe. [MN 09/09/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Shan State Keng Tung [Kengtung] Hawnglük
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1896
- Date collected
- 1896?
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1896, uncertain Found unentered: 08/09/2010
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 13 mm, Width: max 20 mm, Length: max 83 mm, Weight 26 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2010.59.3
- Research and responses
HGA Leveson is listed as "Officers in the Burma Commission" under "Deputy Commissioners, 3rd Grade" in The India List and India Office List for 1905 (p. 69) [Dan Hicks 7/3/2017]
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