sword;
weapon
- Museum number
- Oc.7974
- Description
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Sword, short, broad and flat, of coconut wood, both edges closely set with sharks' teeth set with their bases between two narrow strips of wood and fastened with string of vegetable fibre and dark brown human hair passed through a central hole made in each tooth.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1872)
- Dimensions
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Height: 76 centimetres
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Width: 9 centimetres
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Depth: 3 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Christy collection registration slip, written in 1872?:
Kingsmill Is.
Short broad flat sword of cocoa-nut wood, both edges closely set with shark's teeth. They are set with their bases between two narrow strips of wood, and fastened with string twisted from a pale col[oured] vegetable fibre and dark brown human hair, passed through a central hole made in each tooth.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Acquisition notes
- Registration slip: 'Pres. by A.W. Franks Esq. Oct. 28. 1872. Bought of Umlauff, Hamburg. No history'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.7974
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1872C1.7974 (old CDMS no.)