ceremonial axe;
figure
- Museum number
- Am1945,05.12
- Description
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Register 1945:
Stone ceremonial "axe" surmounted by a human head, one eye inlaid with haliotis shell.
- Dimensions
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Length: 22 centimetres
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Width: 8.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1945:
Northwest Coast of America.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1976-1977 7 Oct-16 Jan, London, The Hayward Gallery
1977 16 Apr-19 Jun, Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Sacred Circles: 2,000 Years of North American Indian Art
1993-95, London, Museum of Mankind, 'Treasures of the Americas'
- Acquisition date
- 1945
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1945,05.12