Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label adhered to object reads '1901.2. St Vincent W.I. Charles Cave M.A.' in faded black ink.
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Field collection)
Accession Register notes: 'Collected by Brown of Bellair from whose wife the donor [Charles Cave] bought them in St Vincent in 1900'
Event Date 1900
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Long stone knife with roughly serrated (wavy) edges and small, expanding notched end to haft; Ground.'
Event Date 1901
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession register: 'A slim weapon, shaped like a N.Z. meri, with roughly serrated sides to blade and small expanding notched end to haft (L. 11")'.
Event Date 5/1901
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Display)
On display in Leicester Museum Caribbean Exhibition, 1986.
Event Date 1986
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Exhibited in the Maudslay Gallery, West Indies Case until 1986.
Event Date 1986
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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

Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2022.5457 | Assessment Only
Event Date 13/10/2022
Author: Kirstie French

Context (References)
Avery, Victoria and Subryan, Jake. (2023). Black Atlantic: People Power Resistance. London: Bloomsbury. p. 48 (no. 30)
Event Date 2023
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Loan (Exhibition)
Fitzwilliam Museum (UCM), 25/7/2023 to 7/1/2024, Enslavement & Resistance: Cambridge & the Black Atlantic
Event Date 25/7/2023
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
A long, ground stone knife of porphyritic basalt or andesite with pyroxene. Blade has a rounded end and shallow serrations or notches along the edges. Haft has an expanding notched end. Faces are flat with scratched graffiti drawings.
Event Date 5/6/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad