Axehead, polished axehead
This is a ground and polished stone axe from Nigeria. Hours of work by a craftsman were needed to make it the shape you see today. It would have been put into a wooden handle before being used in a similar way to a modern axe.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 126/1997
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- W
- Material
- stone
- Common Name
- axehead, polished axehead
- Simple Name
- axehead
- Production Country
- Nigeria
