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Object Number
2000.29.30
Display Title
Currency, axe form
Descriptions
Object Description
Currency; axe form
Inventory Description
Axe, iron rod, triangular, flattened blade at one end
Classification
- Axe
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Burkina Faso?
Materials
Iron
Dimensions
Overall: 34.75 x 21.5 x 3 cm (13 11/16 x 8 7/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2000.29.30
Credit Line
Gift of Mark S. Rapoport, MD and Jane Hughes
Provenance
Collector
Mark S. Rapoport
(12/10/00)
Donor
Jane Hughes
(12/10/2000)
Donor
Mark S. Rapoport
(12/10/00)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000.29.29 | Currency, form with clamp |
Tools
|
Nigeria?
| |
| 2000.29.96 | Currency, lance form |
Exchange medium
|
Africa
| |
| 2000.29.15 | Currency, hooked form |
Exchange medium
|
Africa
| |
| 2000.29.50 | Currency, blade form |
Exchange medium
|
Africa
| |
| 2000.29.22 | Currency, stick form |
Tools
|
Africa
| |
| 2000.29.33 | Currency, bell form |
Currency
|
Africa
| |
| 2000.29.26 | Currency, double lamp form? |
Lamp
|
Africa
| |
| 2000.29.14 | Currency, hoe form |
Hoe
|
Cameroon?
Nigeria? | |
| 2000.29.111 | Currency, hooked form |
Knife
|
Africa
| |
| 2000.29.19 | Currency, hoe form |
Exchange medium
|
Nigeria
| |
| 2000.29.9 | Currency, sickle form |
Sickle
|
Cameroon?
| |
| 2000.29.49 | Currency, blade form |
Agricultural
|
Africa
|