Hatchet, from Dumbuck, Dunbartonshire

One from a group of implements of greenstone, flint and obsidian, comprising hatchets, rubber, scrapers, spearheads and arrow-points: Japan, Hokkaido, Hakodate and Firubiru, prehistoric

Hatchet of stone, sharpened at both ends and with straight sides: Asia, South East Asia, Laos, found near Luang Prabang

Hatchet of stone, sharpened at both ends and with straight sides: Asia, South East Asia, Laos, found near Luang Prabang

Hatchet of stone, sharpened at both ends and with straight sides: Asia, South East Asia, Laos, found near Luang Prabang

Hatchet of green basalt: Micronesian, Caroline Islands, Yap Island

Hatchet of shell with convex faces and rounded ends: Micronesian, Caroline Islands, Pohnpei (Ponape) Island, Nan Madol

Hatchet head of smoothed grey waterstone with chisel edge: Polynesian, Samoa, Tutuila

Plano-convex hatchet head of basalt, tapering slightly from the cutting edge to the butt: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Plano-convex hatchet head of andesitic lava, tapering from the cutting edge to the butt: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Plano-convex hatchet head of fine-grained basalt, tapering from the cutting edge to the butt: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Hatchet head of dark basalt, tapering from the cutting edge to the butt: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Plano-convex hatchet head of banded lydian stone, with round cutting edge tapering to the butt: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Throwing hatchet, curved blade of iron resembling a bird's head, with wooden handle: Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ubangi River

Hatchet with wrought iron blade curved and expanding towards cutting edge, tang riveted to wooden handle: Africa, Eastern Africa, Malawi, late 19th century

Hatchet with head carved and simulating an antelope's head, and two conjoined antelope's heads on shaft: Africa, Malawi, Shire Highlands