Axe Head

Unidentified Taíno maker

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Pre-Columbian

Stone

Overall: 7 5/16 × 4 1/8 × 1 3/4 in. (18.5 × 10.5 × 4.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Charles Jenkins Kelley, Class of 1905W

34.1.4890

Geography

Place Made: Puerto Rico, Caribbean, Central America

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Charles Jenkins Kelley (1880-1918) near Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, 1907-1918; given to the present collection from his estate [through his wife Catherine A. Kelley, Brooklyn, New York), 1934.

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