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Object Number
99-12-70/53382
Display Title
Shark's tooth spear
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Spear, curved wood shaft, loosely wrapped fiber with shark's teeth and shell
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Kiribati
/
Gilbert Islands
Materials
Wood, Fiber, Shark tooth, Shell
Dimensions
Overall: 433 x 3.6 x 3.8 cm (170 1/2 x 1 7/16 x 1 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
99-12-70/53382
Credit Line
Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance
Boston Museum
Donor
David P. Kimball
Donor
L. Cushing Kimball
Donor
Augusta K. Horton
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97-23-70/55163 | Shark's tooth spear |
Spear
|
Kiribati
| |
| 99-12-70/53383 | Shark's tooth spear |
Spear
|
Gilbert Islands
| |
| 99-12-70/53385 | Shark's tooth spear |
Spear
|
Gilbert Islands
| |
| 97-23-70/55162 | Shark's tooth spear |
Spear
|
Kiribati
| |
| 99-12-70/53384.1 | Shark's tooth spear |
Spear
|
Gilbert Islands
| |
| 69-20-70/1307 | Spear armed with shark's teeth |
Spear
|
Kiribati
| |
| 48-49-70/2920 | Shark's tooth spear - probably part of long spear |
Lance
|
Kiribati
| |
| 54-5-70/3607 | Shark's tooth weapon (shark's teeth on wooden pole) |
Lance
|
Kiribati
| |
| 36-45-70/333 | Top end of a tataumanaria (shark's tooth spear) |
Sword
|
Gilbert Islands
| |
| 79-33-70/18856 | Spear, with 4 rows of shark's teeth |
Spear
|
Oceania
| |
| 2005.1.114 | Spear point, perforated, edged with shark's teeth, fiber threaded |
Spear
| ||
| 77-35-70/11642 | Shark's tooth sword |
Sword
|
Kiribati
|