axe
- Museum number
- Af1954,+23.2807.a-b
- Description
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Axe; with steel blade (a) and wooden handle (b); highly decorative handle with engraving, wire wrapping, and decorative metal tacks.
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.40 centimetres (a)
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Height: 54.20 centimetres (b)
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Width: 33.80 centimetres (a)
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Width: 3.90 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 0.40 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 3.50 centimetres (b)
- Curator's comments
- Register addition "Rhodesia".
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- blade has become seperated from handle
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1954,+23.2807.a-b
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 156834 (Wellcome Collection number)