Weapon
17769
From: Gilbert Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
Object Number | 17769 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Gilbert Islands |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Wood | Shark Teeth | Plant Fiber |
Description | Sword set with shark's teeth. Long slender piece of wood, slightly tapering, pointed at both ends. Four rows of triangular sharks teeth, pierced, aligned with palm leaf midribs and lashed to shaft with twisted coconut fiber. Curved crosspiece, from one arm of which juts a shorter straight element, both with four rows of teeth, All tips wound with black (human?) hair. |
Length | 121 cm |
Width | 23.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of William Pepper, 1896 |
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