axe
- Museum number
- Af,+.5126
- Description
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Axe comprising iron blade (with incised decoration) and wood handle (with carved head at point of blade insertion).
- Dimensions
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Height: 61.70 centimetres
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Width: 17.70 centimetres
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Depth: 3.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- No registration Slip. Attached to axe is oblong paper label: "+ 5126 [inked]. Christy Fund 24 April 1891 [printed]". Old-style brown card British Museum tag: "SE Africa, S.Rhodesia. Mashona or Tonga". The list of Noldwritt Collection (Ethnography Department Register Archive, "Notebook 19") has the number "+.5126, Not found" (together with +.5127) annotated against an entry reading "Necklaces. do." [ditto = Ashantee]. This would seem to be in error, as no necklaces with these numbers attached have been identified, and labels "+.5126" and "+.5127" are attached to the axes - which are perhaps the two from "South Africa" noted on Noldwritt list on page following necklaces entry (and for which no "+" numbers have been annotated). NB: the Noldwritt Collection was purchased from G.R.Harding, 24/4/1891, and incorporated into Christy Collection (see printed index to Christy additions "1874-1893", p.38). No registration Slips were made out. (AMD,9/1998).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good.
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,+.5126
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1891C2.5126 (old CDMS no.)
