Weapon
22232
From: Gilbert Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 22232 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Gilbert Islands |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Shark Teeth | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Wooden sword edged with sharks' teeth. Blade mostly straight but very slightly curving towards end. Handle with rectangular cross-section, flattening and bending at end. Teeth set in grooves along edges of blade and stabilized between pairs of coconut leaflet ribs; pierced through bases for individual coconut fiber lashings which pass through holes on edges of blade. Originally 27 pairs of teeth, six teeth now missing. |
| Length | 65 cm |
| Width | 3.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Hampton L. Carson, 1901 |
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