Axe
- Date created
- probably AD 1029-1160 (radiocarbon dated)
- Culture/People
- probably Chican Ostionoid (Chicoid) (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Collector
- William Murphy, Non-Indian
- Previous owner
- William Murphy, Non-Indian
- Lady Edith Blake (Edith Bernal-Osborne Blake), Non-Indian, 1845-1926
- Seller
- Lady Edith Blake (Edith Bernal-Osborne Blake), Non-Indian, 1845-1926
- Sir Henry A. Blake, Non-Indian, 1840-1918
- Collection History
- Collected by William Murphy while prospecting for guano in a cave circa 1882; maintained in his collection until he presented it to Lady Edith Blake (1845-1926, amateur ethnologist, archaeologist, and artist) and her husband Sir Henry Arthur Blake (1840-1918, governor of the Bahamas from 1884 to 1887 and governor of Jamaica from 1889 to 1898) at some point during the Blakes' tenure in the Caribbean; maintained in Lady Blake's collection until 1916 when their collection was purchased by MAI using funds donated by MAI trustee James B. Ford (1844-1928).
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- Place
- Cave; North Caicos District; Turks and Caicos Islands
- Archipelago
- Bahama Islands
- Island Name
- North Caicos Island
- Island Grouping
- Caicos Islands
- Geographical Areas
- Caribbean Islands (West Indies)
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 6/0
- Barcode
- 060000.000
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Axe
- Media/Materials
- Jade (jadeite and omphacite), guaiacum wood
- Techniques
- Pecked, ground, carved
- Record ID
- NMAI_64680