Ax-Money
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Dec 1966
name: label: Collector
content: William M. Mann
label: Donor Name
content: William M. Mann
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Semi T-shaped; the upper bar in crescent form with rounded tips and a sharp, thin edge. Made of sheet copper with the stem portion shallow flanged on edges. Green patination. Dates from about 1400 (Dr. Kent Flannery)."
label: Notes
content: Smelted copper, hammered into a T-Shaped axe, with raised flanges on either side of the shank that prevent the thin form from bending. The axe-money was hammered from sheet metal. Ridges in the metal indicate both the shape and driection of hammer blows from fabrication. These hammer marks leave a slightlty burnished appearance.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Valley Of Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272060
label: USNM Number
content: A448606-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Money
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 11.9 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 16 cm