Axes (tools): O.83-1879

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Entities

• Axes (tools)
• Indian weapons
• tubul

Categories

• Weapons

Description

The head is of steel, originally with a crescent-shaped blade and a solid block pierced for the haft, faceted and decorated with incised lines around the rear. The haft is modern, made of a plain piece of bamboo, fitted with a wooden knob at the butt, and with an iron ferrule at the top. The surface of the head is polished bright pitted and stained from earlier corrosion. The upper point of the blade is completely worn away

Legal notes

Given by Robert Taylor, MA

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA

Dating

19th Century
Circa 1800 - 1879

Note

Taylor records the name (tubul), and that the original haft was one third shorter, and that the horn of the blade was worn away by being used as a walking stick. The same term is used for another axe, the haft bored as a pistol and fitted with a matchlock and touchhole, formerly in the Rotunda collection (Rotunda 1906: 159, no. XVII.119), given by John Hewitt