Billhook
Tool for cutting undergrowth in forest areas and preparing the ground for planting. Likely to have been made from locally-smelted iron, possibly from Ola-Igbi.
Obtained by the Rev. Henry Townsend, in Abeokuta before 1866.
Obtained by the Rev. Henry Townsend, in Abeokuta before 1866.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- E1392
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- W
- Material
- woodiron
- Common Name
- billhook
- Simple Name
- billhook
- Production Town
- Abeokuta
- Production County
- SW Nigeria
- Production Country
- Nigeria
- Production Year High
- 1868