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Hand made axe head. Has a hole for the attachment of a handle.

Culture: Interior Salish: Secwepemc
Material: iron metal
Made in: British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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Model of axe. Wooden handle and blade at top. Both top and bottom of handle have been blackened.

Culture: Ovimbundu
Material: iron metal and wood
Made in: Angola
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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Hand axe consisting of brown-black stone with irregularly chipped large flakes. The butt end is roughly rounded, and the blade tapers to a rounded point.

Culture: North African
Material: stone
Made in: Abu-Gurdy, Egypt ? or Homer-Akarim, Egypt ?
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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A plain, orange-grey stone that has an oblong rectangular shape with both sides rounded while all ends taper at an angle, one end being flat and vertically semi-oval in shape to create an edge at that end which is more flared than the other end which has a similar but smaller effect.

Culture: West African
Material: stone
Made in: Ghana
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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Bahumbukushu axe with a wooden shaft. Base is flat; top has a blackened, rounded cylindrical knob that extends backward. Triangular metal blade protrudes from front of knob, with tang inserted through centre. Small triangular depression on bottom centre of blade, towards knob; point of tang extends from back of knob. Blade is angled downward, knob is angled upward.

Culture: Hambukushu
Material: wood and metal
Made in: Etsha, North West, Botswana
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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Bahumbukushu axe with a wooden shaft. Base is flat; top has a rounded cylindrical knob that extends backward. Triangular metal blade protrudes from front of knob, with tang inserted through centre. Small triangular depressions decorate sides of blade; oval embossed in middle of triangle on the left side. Blade is angled downward; knob is angled upward.

Culture: Hambukushu
Material: wood and metal
Made in: Etsha, North West, Botswana
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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Bahumbukushu axe with a darkened wooden shaft. Base is slightly angled; top has a rounded cylindrical knob that extends backward. Triangular metal blade protrudes from front of knob, with tang inserted through centre. Blade is angled downward, knob is angled upward.

Culture: Hambukushu
Material: wood and metal
Made in: Etsha, North West, Botswana
Holding Institution: MOA: University of British Columbia

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Stone fragments of large hand axe mottled. No more information of excavation. No field notebook. Field Catalog Form lists the object as "fragments of large hand axe, mottled." I. Ostericher 06/08/2011

Material: stone
Holding Institution: The Burke: University of Washington

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Hand axe crudly worked possibly a chopper instead. Jesurun Stockdill 1/26/2010

Material: bone
Holding Institution: The Burke: University of Washington

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Basalt chopper, labeled in ink with "45 KI-8, 19" Field Catalog Form indicates the provenience as: "Unit : 5, 18", Flat oval hand axe, Bottom of disturbed area." Based on data from block cards was likely excavated by Bill Rathbun on 6/24/1953. A. Cohen, 01/28/2010

Material: stone
Holding Institution: The Burke: University of Washington

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