Ax Head

Unidentified Inca maker

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Pre-Columbian

Black basalt stone

Overall: 3 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 1/16 in. (8.4 × 6.5 × 2.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Henry C. Reed, Class of 1931

29.4.4001

Geography

Place Made: Quito, Ecuador, South America

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Henry Clinton Reed (1907-1993) in Ecuador, 1920; given to present collection, 1929.

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