Sword "Mandan" Head Hunter
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Sep 1898
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rijksmuseum Voor Volkenkunde
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HEAVY BLADE INLAID WITH BRASS, HILT WOOD CARVED, AND GRIP WRAPPED WITH BRAIDED RATTAN. SCABBARD WOOD SEWED TOGETHER WITH RATTAN. A SMALL BLADE WITH LONG HANDLE OCCUPIES A SHEATH ATTACHED TO THE SCABBARD. THE SHEATH IS DECORATED WITH SHELLS. SWORD STRAP OF BRAIDED RATTAN. USED BY DYAK. HEAD HUNTER A VERY GOOD SPECIMEN, WHICH SEEMS TO BEAR RESEMBLANCE TO THE KOOKINE OF THE HILL TRIBES OF INDIA."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 91 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Dyaks of Borneo".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Southeast, Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Dyak
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 033997
label: USNM Number
content: E178768-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword