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Description Scale in inches. Pieces like this are found elsewhere in West Africa also. Guesses about their use can be found in J. Gaussen, "Petits instruments en pierre polie du Sahara méridional (oued Tilemsi et ses abords), L'ANTHROPOLOGIE, T. 94 (1990), no. 3, pp. 559-568. My best guess is that they were used for ceremonial purposes where the fact that they were unused was important. An example of this can be found in George E Brooks, Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630, p. 90. This was an iron tool, but iron seems to have replaced stone in tools like this. See the photo below for another example of the apparent ritual use of a miniature unused axe.
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Unused prehistoric miniature dolerite celt from archaeological excavations in Sierra Leone (West Africa)

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