ceremonial axe
- Museum number
- Af,+.5127
- Description
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Ceremonial axe comprising circular iron tanged blade, with wood handle and a carved lug near blade.
- Dimensions
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Height: 60.70 centimetres
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Width: 19.50 centimetres
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Depth: 4.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- No registration Slip. Attached to axe is oblong paper label: "+ 5127 [inked]. Christy Fund 24 April 1891 [printed]". Old-style brown card British Museum tag: "[SE Africa]". The list of Noldwritt Collection (Ethnography Department Register Archive, "Notebook 19") has the number "+.5127, Not found" (together with +.5126) 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
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Acquisition notes
- Af,+.5096 to 5165 is the African material from a much wider ethnographic collection formed by the late John Spencer Noldwritt (1815-91); the collection was purchased using the Christy Fund through the dealer G R Harding.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,+.5127
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1891C2.5127 (old CDMS no.)