Sword and Sheath "Mandau"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Dec 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 1973
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Col. J. A. Mendelson
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of Defense
notes: label: Notes
content: SHEATHED SWORD DOCUMENTED AS "DYAK" BY MED. MUS. (COLLECTOR'S NOTES TENTATIVELY INDICATE FIJI). (1/2) SWORD (L. 63CM, W. 8CM). SHORT STRAIGHT SINGLE-EDGED BLADE, NO GUARD, BONE HILT W/ONE PROJECTING SIDE POMMEL, W/ INCISED DESIGNS. GRIP WRAPPED W/ TWISTED BRASS WIRE. TRACES OF HAIR, TASSELS (NOW GONE) INSERTED W/ WOODEN PEG IN POMMEL AND GRIP. TANG EMBEDDED INTO HILT W/ RESIN. (2/2) SHEATH (L. 57CM., W. 5.75CM) TWO HALVES OF WOOD, CARVED TO FIT BLADE, WRAPPED TOGETHER W/ CANE AND BAST FIBERS NEAR TOP, W/ COPPER WIRE AT BOTTOM. ONE SIDE PAINTED. TOP WRAPPED LOOSE, HAS BEEN BADLY GLUED. REF: STONE, 1934. PP. 433-435.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Dyak
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 364983
label: USNM Number
content: E424610-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword/Sheath
physicalDescription: label: Length - 1 Of 2, Sword
content: 63 cm
label: Width - 1 Of 2, Sword
content: 8 cm
label: Length - 2 Of 2, Sheath
content: 57 cm
label: Width - 2 Of 2, Sheath
content: 5.75 cm