Description (Labels & Markings)
Small handwritten label adhered to object reads: '22'.
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label adhered to object reads: 'd. near Chateau-Bellair, St. Vincent, W.I. (old black man in passage boat with c.) Jan. 3, 1873. W.G.' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected 3 January 1873.
Event Date 3/1/1873
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Likely part of the 'large collection of the implements' exhibited by Rev. Griffith's paper during the 24 November 1873 meeting of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. (see PCAS vol 3(4)).
Event Date 24/11/1873
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Griffith, W. (1879). ‘Notes on Charib Implements in Barbados and the Neighbouring (West Indian) Islands’. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 3(4). pp. 295-302
Event Date 1879
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Small celt with fish-tail butt; Ground.'
Event Date 1918
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession register: 'Celt...with fish-tail butt. 1 small.'
Event Date 1918
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Acquisition Details)
Rev. William Griffith's Caribbean collection was collected between 2 October 1872 and 2 July 1873, whilst he was acting tutor at Codrington College, Barbados. It was donated to the museum in 1918 by his brother, Arthur Foster Griffith, likely following the death of Rev. Griffith that same year.
Event Date 1918
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Maudslay Gallery West Indies Case until 1986.
Event Date 1986
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
A small notched axe made from ground porphyritic basalt or andesite with pyroxene. Blade is a broad lobe of lenticular cross-section. Butt end is in the form of a fish tail: the base of the blade has a rounded notch on each side; the butt is expanded with a straight end.
Event Date 6/6/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad