Axehead
This carefully shaped ground axe head comes from Peru. It would have been put into a wooden handle and used in a similar way to modern axes. There is a chip in the blade that may have been knocked off during use.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 25/1974/4
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Material
- nephrite
- Common Name
- axehead
- Simple Name
- axehead
- Production Country
- Peru
- Production Year Low
- 200BC
- Production Year High
- 600AD
