Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Bead axe

Sudan

 

Collected by Anthony John Arkell

Given to the Museum in 1937

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This small axe from Sudan was used for making beads from ostrich egg shells. The axe was used for cutting out the disc shapes from the shell, and then a drill was used to bore out the centre of the bead. The axe was made some time before 1937.

View database record 1937.35.12