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Object Number
12-37-70/84231
Display Title
Shark tooth knife
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Knife, carved wood, perforated, fiber lashed shark's teeth, fiber tie
Classification
- Knife
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Kiribati
Materials
Wood, Shark tooth, Plant fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 26.5 x 5.5 x 2.4 cm (10 7/16 x 2 3/16 x 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
84231
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00-8-70/55594 | Shark tooth knife |
Knife
|
Kiribati
| |
| 26-21-70/D2695 | Shark tooth knife |
Knife
|
Oceania
| |
| 44-7-70/2262 | Shark tooth knife |
Knife
|
Gilbert Islands?
| |
| 44-7-70/2261 | Shark tooth knife |
Knife
|
Gilbert Islands?
| |
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Knife
|
Marakei Island
| |
| 00-8-70/55592 | Shark tooth knife |
Knife
|
Kiribati
| |
| 00-8-70/55593 | Shark tooth knife |
Knife
|
Kiribati
| |
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Knife
|
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| |
| 54-5-70/3607 | Shark's tooth weapon (shark's teeth on wooden pole) |
Lance
|
Kiribati
| |
| 15-25-70/86109 | Shark's tooth sword |
Sword
|
Kiribati
| |
| 46-78-70/2437 | Shark's tooth sword whose foundation is light rough wood |
Sword
|
Kiribati
| |
| 33-14-70/21 | Rere (short sword or knife with shark's teeth) |
Sword
|
Gilbert Islands
|