Object Number | 2010-28-6 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Samoan |
Provenience | Samoa Islands |
Manufacture Location | Sheffield | England |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Wood | Steel |
Iconography | Boar Head |
Inscription Language | English Language |
Description | Cane knife (nifo'oti). The knife consists of a long blade with a wooden handle with plaited fiber banding around the handle. It has a straight sided blade with a protrusion curving out from the top. The inscription on the blade reads: JOSEPH BEALS & SONS SHEFFIELD. The tradmark of a boar's head and the word ENDURE appears as well. |
Length | 80 cm |
Width | 10.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2010 |
Other Number | 1995.X.15941 - Other Number | CIVIC1995.X.15941 - Other Number |
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