1923.2.11

Axe with long narrow blade with fanned cutting edge, fixed into a wooden shaft with incised zig-zag decoration at the upper end. The register states it is a Moshie (Mossi, Burkina Faso) axe, although it was probably collected in Ghana. Collection of Capt Robert Powley Wild.

Burkina Faso

1900 - 1923

20th century

iron alloy, wood