Axehead, polished axehead
This is a very highly polished stone axe blade made from jade. If they were used as tools axes like this would likely have been put into a wooden handle and used in a similar way to modern axes. This axe may have had a ceremonial function.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 93/2000
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Material
- jade
- Common Name
- axehead, polished axehead
- Simple Name
- axehead
- Production County
- British Columbia
- Production Country
- Canada
- Production Date
- Late Prehistoric?-Early Historic
- Production Year Low
- 600BP
- Production Year High
- 300BP
