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1929.44.91

Drill made from a piece of triangular, brown-grey stone. [LKG 04/05/2010]


1929.44.91

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Collection type
Object
Description
Drill made from a piece of triangular, brown-grey stone. [LKG 04/05/2010]
Geographical reference
Western Cape Province Cape Town
Person
Field collector W. Hardy
PRM source W. Hardy
Date
Date collected
By 1929
Acquisition information
Donated: 1929
Materials and processes
Material Stone
Dimensions
Length 21 mm, Width 7 mm, Weight 1 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1929.44.91
Associated publications
Referred to on page 24 of 'Stone Age Sub-Saharan Africa', by Peter Mitchell, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 16-34. Mitchell writes: ‘As already noted, over 500 artefacts of the South African - and indeed, southern African - collections derive, either directly or indirectly, from the activities of its first Curator, Henry Balfour, who maintained an active interest in the region's prehistory (e.g. Balfour 1910 [Archaeological and ethnological research. The Times (South African Supplement) 5th November 1910]) ... collections acquired from professional and amateur colleagues encountered on his visits to South Africa. These include .... those from sites in the Western Cape donated by W.E. Hardy (1929.44.1-140). [MJD 14/11/2014]

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