Description (Labels & Markings)
Label adhered to object reads: 'S. Vincent W.I. Briggs Coll. 94'
Event Date
Author: Alana Edgeworth

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'A small curved shell adze.'
Event Date 1894
Author: maa

Context (Other)
Piece numbered by Mary Hill Harris 1985
Event Date 1985
Author: maa

Context (Auction / Sale)
Register entry for 1894.47- 53 notes 'Briggs Collection/ Gibbons £2.0.0'

Carib stone tools collected by British planter and legislator Sir Graham Briggs (1833-1887) who owned the Farley Hill Estate on Barbados. His collections were purchased after his death from Charles Kenrick Gibbons (1856-1918). He was the son of Briggs' half sister, Anne Maxwell Hinds Jackman (1824–1902) and Lt Col. William Barton Gibbons (1892- 1872), J.P. Barbados, who were part of a family group compensated for the Sandford’s estate in Barbados following the abolition of slavery.

The National Museum of Ireland (1889), the British Museum (1889) and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (1890 & 1915), and Glasgow Museum (1890) also acquired Carib tools from Gibbons. According to letters from Gibbons the material was exhibited in 1889, presumably to potential buyers, in London at the Baker St Bazaar, Lady Brigg's Room, Kings St Entrance.
Event Date 5/11/2020
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Shell adze made from the columella of a queen conch (Strombus gigas). Comprising of a curved cutting edge, ground and bevelled on one face, and a butt end which incorporates the siphonal canal. ​Naturally concave on one face.
Event Date 6/6/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth