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Object Number
33-14-70/21
Display Title
Rere (short sword or knife with shark's teeth)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
Rere
Object Description
Shark-tooth sword, the sword made of wood with the teeth bound in +
Inventory Description
Sword, carved wood handle, blade, plant fiber lashed sharks teeth, fiber loop
Classification
- Sword
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Kiribati
/
Gilbert Islands
Dimensions
Overall: 66.1 x 5.9 x 3.4 cm (26 x 2 5/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
33-14/70/21
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Lombard C. Jones, 1933
Provenance
Donor
Donated by
Dr. Lombard C. Jones
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Sword
|
Kiribati
| |
| 46-78-70/2437 | Shark's tooth sword whose foundation is light rough wood |
Sword
|
Kiribati
| |
| 76-51-70/11010 | Shark's tooth sword |
Sword
|
Kiribati
| |
| 15-25-70/86109 | Shark's tooth sword |
Sword
|
Kiribati
| |
| 46-78-70/2438 | Shark's tooth sword whose foundation is light rough wood |
Sword
|
Kiribati
| |
| 99-49-70/52189 | Sharks tooth sword |
Sword
|
Kiribati
| |
| 48-56-70/3118 | Wooden sword with shark's teeth and human hair |
Sword
|
Ellice Island
| |
| 44-7-70/2260 | Shark tooth sword |
Sword
|
Gilbert Islands?
| |
| 36-45-70/333 | Top end of a tataumanaria (shark's tooth spear) |
Sword
|
Gilbert Islands
| |
| 76-46-70/10786 | Shark's tooth sword |
Lance
|
Kiribati
| |
| 46-78-70/2436 | Shark's tooth sword, whose foundation is some endogenous wood |
Lance
|
Kiribati
| |
| 2004.1.590 | Sword?, carved wood shaft, curved, shark teeth lashed at four sides, broken |
Sword
|
Oceania
|