Shark Tooth Sword
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ORIGINALLY CATALOGED AS ROSE ISLAND, WHICH IS PROBABLY THE ROSE ATOLL IN SAMOA, BUT THIS SPECIMEN IS GILBERTS. SHR. 9/10/60. THIS IS PROBABLY THE SPECIMENS LISTED IN VARDEN'S WASHINGTON MUSEUM CATALOG (ORIGINAL IN SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES) AS: "AN INSTRUMENT OF WAR USED BY THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS MADE OF SHARKES TEETH." RECEIVED BY JOHN VARDEN FROM JOHN HENRY IN 1835. NO. 102 IN VARDEN CATALOG). IT IS THE ONLY SHARK TOOTH WEAPON LISTED IN THE VARDEN CATALOG. OCT. 25, 1951. J. C. EWERS."
label: Notes
content: Note that catalogue number E5347-0 is a shark tooth dagger in the Varden collection, so there are actually two shark tooth weapons in the Varden collection, though Ewers only found one listed in the Varden catalogue when he reviewed the records in 1951.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kiribati Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5377-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword