Malay Dagger And Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "STRAIGHT - SLIGHTLY CONVEX: BLADE HAS MEDIAN FLAT SURFACE-WITH DOUBLE CUTTING-EDGE: GRIP RECURVED: FERRULE IS OF COPPER WITH FLORAL INCRUSTATIONS, HANDLE END POMMEL ANIMAL HEAD SIMILAR TO IVORY CARVING ON 3896. 6/28/55 DR. E. P. HENDERSON, DIVISION OF MINERALOGY, IN ANALYZING A SMALL PORTION OF THE IRON IN THIS SPECIMEN, FOUND TRACES OF NICKEL-IRON PRESENT WHICH WOULD NORMALLY ONLY BE SO IF THIS WERE OF METORITIC (A.K.A. METEORIC) ORIGIN, AND THIS BEING AN EARLY SPECIMEN IT IS PROBABLY THE CASE. GARDNER IN HIS BOOK ON THE KRIS SAYS THAT EARLY SPECIMENS WERE OFTEN MADE WITH, AT LEAST PARTS OF METORITIC IRON, THAT IS SOME OF THE LAYERS IF NOT THE WHOLE THING. *R. ELDER. ILLUS. IN BULLETIN 137, USNM; PL. 13, NO. 6; P. 120." Described on p. 82-83 of USNM Bulletin 137, where Krieger says that it was collected by Captain Lewis of the bark [ship] Java and presented to the Wilkes Expedition 1838 [sic]. Identified as Malay with locality of E. Ind. Archipelago on catalogue card. Also identified as Celebes (Sulawesi), Indonesia on card by Mrs. Bronven Solyom (11/1981). Peale catalogue identifies as "Javanese "Kris" presented to the expedn. by Captn. Lewis of the Barque Java, at Singapore, February 1842."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Indonesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3897-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dagger / Sheath