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Object Number
988-12-70/5603
Display Title
Double knife
Descriptions
Object Description
"Dayak mandau", double-sheathed iron bladed knives with wood, textile, rattan, horn, and hair hafts; rattan and wood sheaths ornamented with cotton thread and metal coin. One knife: short blade, long plain wooden haft, plain fiber sheath; other knife: very long blade, ornate rattan and carved wood haft with hair, wood sheath with stripes of rattan
Inventory Description
Knives, two blades, double sheath of wood, animal hair, braided strap
Classification
- Knife
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Dayak
- Kalimantan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Malaysia
/
Borneo
Oceania / Malaysia / Borneo
Oceania / Malaysia / Borneo
Dimensions
Overall: 64.2 x 4.1 x 3.9 cm (25 1/4 x 1 5/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
988-12-70/5603
Provenance
Collector
Jan Merghart
(1949-1950 - 9/8/1988)
Donor
Jan Merghart
(1949-1950 - 9/8/1988)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 988-12-70/5604 | Knife |
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|
Mindanao
| |
| 988-12-70/5605 | Knife |
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|
Borneo
Borneo | |
| 988-12-70/5602 | Knife |
Knife
|
Borneo
Borneo | |
| 29-34-70/D3331 | Knives, wooden sheaths |
Knife
|
Java?
| |
| 36-137-70/526 | Native dagger in wooden sheath and rattan handle |
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|
Botel Tobago Island
| |
| 33-38-70/209.1 | Knives and sheaths |
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|
Visayas
| |
| 33-38-70/209 | Knives and sheaths |
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|
Visayas
| |
| 29-34-70/D3331.1 | Knives, wooden sheaths |
Knife
|
Java?
| |
| 988-12-70/5601 | Dagger |
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|
Borneo
Borneo | |
| 24-48-60/D2023 | 3 knives and 3 sheaths |
Knife
|
Siberia
| |
| 04-19-70/63068 | Field parang and sheath |
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|
Borneo
Borneo |