Context (Analysis)
Import as not of Barbados stone
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Related Documents)
Note by William Ridgeway: 'Given to me by Canon Greenwell, FRS, Duram for my little set of axes used as amulets. This one made of agate is from Barbadoes. It is shape after the old Carib stone axes, which of course the Negroes, as in Africa, regard as thunderbolts.'

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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Stone; Agate Pendant; axe; ?votive object
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: West Indies Case until 1985.
Event Date 1985
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Andrews Gallery, "The Americas 1492", 15 June 1992 to 24 September 1994.
Event Date 15/6/1992
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Polished axe-shaped pendant of brown agate. Elongated D-shaped form, pierced through along the length of the straight edge by a transverse suspension hole; a small notch is present just below the suspension hole on both vertical edges of the object.
Event Date 4/6/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal