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1933.9.6

Iron adze blade with half-socket.

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1933.9.6

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Collection type
Object
Description
Iron adze blade with half-socket.
Geographical reference
Sudan, Republic of
Africa > Northern Africa > Sudan, Republic of
Darfur El Fasher
Person
Field collector Kenneth Stuart Sandford
PRM source Kenneth Stuart Sandford
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1933
Date collected
1932
Acquisition information
Donated: 1933
Materials and processes
Material Iron Metal
Dimensions
Length: max 165 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1933.9.6
Research and responses

K. S. Sandford is probably Kenneth Stuart Sandford. [CW 2/3/2000] According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Darfur is the name of a historical region of the Bilad as-Sudan (Arabic: "Land of the Blacks"), a region roughly corresponding to the westernmost portion of the present-day Republic of The Sudan. It lay between Kordofan in the east and Wadai in the west and extended southward to the Bahr al-Ghazal and northward to the Libyan Desert. El Fasher may be al-Fashir, which was established as the capital of the Fur Sultanate of Dafur in the late 18th century. [CW 2/3/2000]

Search terms: Tool, Adze

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