Dagger
| Object Number: | 2003-32-335 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Provenience: | Gilbert Islands |
| Section: | Oceanian |
| Materials: | Wood Shark Teeth Coconut Fiber |
| Length: | 35 cm |
| Width: | 4 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number: | 1993.X.270 - Other Number |
Description
Short weapon of light-colored wood, very sllightly curved, edged with large sharks' teeth: thirteen one edge (2 broken of); twelve the other (1 broken off, 2 missing). Teeth individually attached by means of fiber cord through holes in their bases and in the blade. Handle roughly square in corss-section, pierced, with small loop of metal wire. Raised ring between handle and blade. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900.
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