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Object Number
99-12-70/53572
Display Title
Knife
Descriptions
Object Description
Shark's tooth knife, "knuckleduster." Though primarily a club, the shark-tooth dagger is a hybrid between a shark-tooth club and a bludgeon dagger and may have been used in hand-to-hand combat.
Inventory Description
Knife, carved wood semi-circular handle, sharks teeth embedded along curved side
Classification
- Knife
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1899
Culture
- Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
United States
/
Hawaii
Materials
Wood , Shark tooth , Plant fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 13 × 9 × 2.7 cm (5 1/8 × 3 9/16 × 1 1/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
53572
Credit Line
Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance
Boston Museum
Donor
David P. Kimball
Donor
Augusta K. Horton
Donor
L. Cushing Kimball
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67-10-70/327 | Knife |
Knife
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Hawaii
| |
| 00-8-70/55590 | Shark's tooth knife |
Knife
|
Marakei Island
| |
| 00-8-70/55592 | Shark tooth knife |
Knife
|
Kiribati
| |
| 00-8-70/55594 | Shark tooth knife |
Knife
|
Kiribati
| |
| 12-37-70/84231 | Shark tooth knife |
Knife
|
Kiribati
| |
| 44-7-70/2262 | Shark tooth knife |
Knife
|
Gilbert Islands?
| |
| 44-7-70/2261 | Shark tooth knife |
Knife
|
Gilbert Islands?
| |
| 26-21-70/D2695 | Shark tooth knife |
Knife
|
Oceania
| |
| 00-8-70/55593 | Shark tooth knife |
Knife
|
Kiribati
| |
| 74-4-70/7575 | Knife |
Knife
|
Hawaii
| |
| 33-14-70/21 | Rere (short sword or knife with shark's teeth) |
Sword
|
Gilbert Islands
| |
| 54-5-70/3607 | Shark's tooth weapon (shark's teeth on wooden pole) |
Lance
|
Kiribati
|