- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Axe for making ostrich eggshell beads, with narrow iron blade and wooden handle. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 10/11/2005]
- Cultural groups
- Fur
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1937
- Date collected
- By 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1937
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant
- Dimensions
- Length: max 285 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1937.35.12
- Associated publications
- This object was featured in the Museum’s ‘web gallery’ (‘Selected Objects from the Lower Gallery’) produced during the DCF-funded ‘What’s Upstairs?’ project, 2004–2006, with the following caption: ‘This small axe from Sudan was used for making beads from ostrich egg shells. The axe was used for cutting out the disc shapes from the shell, and then a drill was used to bore out the centre of the bead. The axe was made some time before 1937.
1937.35.12
Axe for making ostrich eggshell beads, with narrow iron blade and wooden handle. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 10/11/2005]
On display
1937.35.12
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