Blade-Shaped Object with Anthropomorphic Handle

Panama, Pre-Columbian

About 1400

  • Titles Blade-Shaped Object with Anthropomorphic Handle (Descriptive)
  • Medium earthenware
  • Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Spencer, Jr., 1963.249
  • Object Name axe
  • Classification Weapons and Ammunition

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