Green stone ax head

Unidentified maker (Costa Rica)

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Pre-Columbian

Green stone

Overall: 5 1/8 × 2 3/8 × 11/16 in. (13 × 6 × 1.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Bradley M. Patten

171.29.25246

Geography

Place Made: Costa Rica, Central America

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Professor William Patten (1861-1932, Class of 1908H, Dartmouth Professor of Zoology, 1893-1931); to his son Dr. Bradley M. Patten (1889-1971), Ann Arbor, Michigan; given to present collection, 1971.

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