| Object Number | P4953 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Gilbert Islands |
| Date Made | 19th century CE |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Shark Teeth | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Curved (sickle-shaped) dark brown wood sword, edged with sharks’ teeth. Thirty-two teeth on outside of curve (2 broken off), twenty-nine on inside, pierced through bases for individual coconut fiber lashings, which pass through holes along edges of blade. Pronounced median ridge, both faces. Raised ring at base of handle, which has articulated triangular tip. |
| Length | 50.5 cm |
| Width | 6 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from the Estate of Frederick T. Agard, 1918 |
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