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

Description (Physical description)
Small polished stone axe; Ground
Event Date
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).

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 C. Kenrick Gibbons.
This is probably Charles Kenrick Gibbons (1856-1918), potentially the son of Lt Col. William Barton Gibbons (1892-1872), J.P. Barbados, who was 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 petaloid celt of red stone. Lenticular in cross section; ground and polished with few rough surfaces; pointed butt end; tapering curved sides; curved cutting edge with signs of use.
Event Date 7/6/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung