Sword
29-58-189
From: Gilbert Islands (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-58-189 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Gilbert Islands (uncertain) |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Shark Teeth | Wood | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Short, straight palm wood sword, edged with sharks' teeth. Mediian ridge on each face. Handle spirally grooved, two round holes between handle and blade. Bone guard stuck in laterally through hole at at junction of handle and blade. Sharks' teeth set in grooves along edges of blade, individually lashed to it with coconut fiber that passes through the base of each tooth. |
| Length | 44 cm |
| Width | 6.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Received from various sources, pre-1929 |
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