Ceremonial Axe (gano)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Ceremonial Axe (gano)

1900s, by 1928

Iron, wood, and metal
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

This ceremonial axe has a half-moon piece of metal nailed to it, marked "EKB Depose." It is part of the mechanism for a pocket watch made by Edward Kummer of Bettlach, whose Swiss factories marked watches with his initials between 1888 and 1932.

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