axe
- Museum number
- Oc1981,Q.2160
- Description
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Axe of dark grey stone, partly polished.
- Production date
- 1864 (before)
- Dimensions
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Length: 10 centimetres
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Width: 6.40 centimetres
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Depth: 2.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Circular stuck-on handwritten label: 'BM coll: 100 Mile Dest. Steph. Hack. Oct. 1868.'
See Christy Correspondence
Note with sketch
'Found in the year 1864 in what is called the 100 mile desert, near the Victorian boundary line about 70 or 80 miles East of the junction of the Murray River with Lake Alexandrina. It is a specimen of the stone axe used by the Australian Aboriginals before the arrival of the white men.
Presented to the British Museum by Stephen Hack late of South Australia
Oct 21 1868.
I found this axe at a very old deserted camp of the blacks, the tribe that inhabited this district were almost extinct when the settlers first came into the country. From what other Blacks have told me I believe them to have been carried off by small pox.
Stephen Hack, [illeg], Gloucester [with sketch]
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1981,Q.2160
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1868