battle-axe
- Museum number
- As.2665
- Description
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Battle-axe with long dark wood handle, and waved iron head that splits into two curved parts, pointing to the top and bottom, and each culminating in a pointed end. Blade attached to the shaft with iron strip with triangular aspect to either side and a point extending from the back. Simple incised pattern on the triangular parts of the iron strip and on the adjacent part of the blade. Conical iron cover to top of shaft, ending in leaf-shaped point.
Bands of brass decorate the shaft.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2 centimetres (handle)
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Height: 84 centimetres
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Weight: 600 grammes
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Width: 11.50 centimetres (blade)
- Curator's comments
- Register comment: 'Central Africa [both words crossed out] Khondistan? Battle-axe, flat iron blade with perforated projecting back through which is passed the wood shaft. With iron tipped ends. A few lines are engraved on it. The shaft is ornamented with bands of thin brass. From Black.[Blackmore] Musm. Salisbury. Petherick Collection.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1866 (probably)
- Acquisition notes
- This must have been purchased by the Blackmore Museum in Salisbury at the Petherick sale of 1862, and later exchanged with the Christy collection, probably in 1866. If the Petherick provenance is correct, this axe must have been acquired by him in the South Sudan in the 1850s, and have been imported there from India.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As.2665
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: As186?C1.2665 (old CDMS no.)