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Object Number
99-12-70/53383
Display Title
Shark's tooth spear
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Spear, shark teeth on wood trident, fiber wrapped shaft, fiber cord bound
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Kiribati
/
Gilbert Islands
Materials
Wood, Fiber, Shark tooth, Sharkskin
Dimensions
Overall: 335.5 x 29 x 5 cm (132 1/16 x 11 7/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
53383
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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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97-23-70/55163 | Shark's tooth spear |
Spear
|
Kiribati
| |
| 97-23-70/55162 | Shark's tooth spear |
Spear
|
Kiribati
| |
| 99-12-70/53382 | Shark's tooth spear |
Spear
|
Gilbert Islands
| |
| 99-12-70/53385 | Shark's tooth spear |
Spear
|
Gilbert Islands
| |
| 99-12-70/53384.1 | Shark's tooth spear |
Spear
|
Gilbert Islands
| |
| 48-49-70/2920 | Shark's tooth spear - probably part of long spear |
Lance
|
Kiribati
| |
| 69-20-70/1307 | Spear armed with shark's teeth |
Spear
|
Kiribati
| |
| 54-5-70/3607 | Shark's tooth weapon (shark's teeth on wooden pole) |
Lance
|
Kiribati
| |
| 79-33-70/18856 | Spear, with 4 rows of shark's teeth |
Spear
|
Oceania
| |
| 36-45-70/333 | Top end of a tataumanaria (shark's tooth spear) |
Sword
|
Gilbert Islands
| |
| 00-8-70/55596 | Shark tooth spear |
Spear
|
Kiribati
| |
| 77-35-70/11642 | Shark's tooth sword |
Sword
|
Kiribati
|