weapon
- Museum number
- Oc.1959
- Description
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Weapon made of swordfish's upper jaw, wood, iron, brass, cord, whale tooth.
- Production date
- 19thC(early)-19thC(mid) (before 1866?)
- Dimensions
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Length: 72 centimetres
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Width: 7 centimetres
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Depth: 6 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Christy collection registration slip description, written in 1866?:
Pelew Islands
Weapon made of the snout of a saw-fish on one side of which is a wood rod with an iron point which slides through brass eyes fixed in the snout. The lower end of the snout is covered with plaited cord and terminates in a dark wood handle inlaid with three pieces of whale's tooth.
Wareham 1/7/66
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1983–1986 16 Dec-29 Jun, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, Pattern of islands: Micronesia yesterday and today
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.1959
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1866C1.1959 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1980Q1.866