Stone axe with ground edge, made from a flat dark brown pebble. [LM 01/08/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone axe with ground edge, made from a flat dark brown pebble. [LM 01/08/2007]
Geographical reference: Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia; Victoria Melbourne Keilor Maribyrnong River [formerly Salt Water River, Saltwater River]
Person: Field collector J. Wallace; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date
Date collected: By 1917
Acquisition information: Donated: 1917
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Ground
Dimensions: Thick: max 14 mm, Length: max 112 mm, Width: max 75 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1917.9.6
Research and responses: In an email to the PRM dated 16 April 2013, mother and daughter Maria and Megan Blackwell noted that the J. Wallace associated with these four objects (1917.9.5-.8) was their (great-)great-uncle. They also noted that James Wallace's property in Keilor is retained by the family. (See RDF for printout of email.) [JC 17 4 2013]
In his notebook/diary entry for Monday 17 August 1914, Balfour writes: ‘Thence motored to Keilor, also Salt Water River, farm-land, where Mr J. Wallace gave us some good implements + we found others.’ See: University of Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum; Manuscript Collections; Balfour Papers; Box 1; item 7 (Diary of 1914 visit to B.A.A.S. (British Association for the Advancement of Science) meeting in Sydney, Australia; Notebook 1 (London–Sydney). [JC 17 4 2013]

Search terms: Weapon, Tool, Axe

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