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Object Number
36-45-70/333
Display Title
Top end of a tataumanaria (shark's tooth spear)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
tataumanaria
Inventory Description
Sword, wood, shark teeth lashed with cordage, fiber handle, four points
Classification
- Sword
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1909
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Kiribati
/
Gilbert Islands
Dimensions
Overall: 58.8 x 24 x 4.2 cm (23 1/8 x 9 7/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
36-45-70/333
Credit Line
Gift of Alfred M. Tozzer, 1936
Provenance
Collector
Dr. Roland Burrage Dixon
(1909)
Donor
Dr. Alfred M. Tozzer
(1936)
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