axe
- Museum number
- Af1933,0511.18
- Description
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"Medicine woman's" axe with iron head and wooden shaft bound with brass wire.
- Production date
- 1933 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 44.70 centimetres
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Width: 11.60 centimetres
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Depth: 2.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register for 18 and 19: "Said to be the sign of a medicine woman. Asena tribe, Portuguese East Africa".
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1996, London, Wellcome Institute, Abracadabra: the Magic of Medicine
- Acquisition date
- 1933
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on Af1933,0511.15.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1933,0511.18