Axe

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Date:Not Recorded

Description:Iron axe, from Central India, with a long wooden pole handle.

The axe-head has a four-pronged blade with an ornate pointed and engraved brass finial at the top. There is a brass cap at the base with metal wire wound around the shaft to hold the axe-head in place.

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Wood Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum Iron India Ethnography Ethnographical Alloys - Bronze, Brass, Pewter

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Donor ref: LEAMG : M240.1917.5 (60/23232)

Source: Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum

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