Weapon
P4941
From: Gilbert Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | P4941 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Gilbert Islands |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Shark Teeth | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Short, curved, dark wood sword, blade edged with sharks' teeth. Raised midribs on both faces. Rows of sharks' teeth stabilized between palm leaflet ribs, the lashing passing between opposing pairs of teeth and around both blade and palm leaf strips. Eleven teeth on outside edge (10 miissing), sixteen teeth on inside edge (6 missing). |
| Credit Line | Purchased from the Estate of Frederick T. Agard, 1918 |
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