Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil reading: 'Dominica. 1887. Briggs'.
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Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Small polished stone axe; Ground
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Author: maa

Context (Other owners)
Acquired in 1887. This is the year that Thomas Graham Briggs died, and his collection was dispersed.
Event Date 1887
Author: maa

Context (Auction / Sale)
See other Briggs Collection material accessioned as 1889.213, E 1890.1 (the latter probably re-accessioned as Z 2509- 28).

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 Brigg's 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)
One celt of green stone. Lenticular in cross section; ground all over; flat butt end; tapering curved sides; curved cutting edge.
Event Date 7/6/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung