tool/implement
- Museum number
- Af1930,0111.22
- Description
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Crescent, tool made of quartz. Broken into many pieces.
- Dimensions
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Height: 0.80 centimetres (largest)
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Width: 0.40 centimetres (largest)
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Depth: 0.10 centimetres (largest)
- Curator's comments
- From acquisition "crescent".
Microlithic quartz blades, scrapers and crescents were often set in a wooden point, suggesting they may have been used to form a barbed arrowhead.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Poor. Broken into many pieces
- Acquisition date
- 1930
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1930,0111.22
