Shark Tooth Sword
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Jul 1999
name: label: Collector
content: Marie-Helene Sachet
label: Donor Name
content: Muriel W. Sterne
notes: label: Notes
content: CENTRAL STEM OF DARK WOOD W/ CROSS-GUARDS ANGLED TOWARDS BLADE. WOODEN BLADE HAS SHARP END. ENTIRE SWORD COVERED W/ PLAIN BASKETRY OF PINK, GREEN AND UNCOLORED FIBER. SWORD'S BLADE FROM THE CROSS-GUARDS TO THE SWORD'S TIP CROSSED BY 12 EVENLY SPACED STRANDS OF TAN AND BROWN FIBER ON WHICH SHARK'S TEETH ARE STRUNG. SHARK TEETH POSITIONED ON SWORD'S EDGE AND HELD IN PLACE BY 2 STRIP'S OF WOOD WHICH ARE TIED AT BLADE'S POINT AND AT THE CROSS-GUARDS. BLADE'S POINT COVERED BY STRANDS OF UNCOLORED FIBER. CROSS-GUARDS COVERED AND DECORATED W/ PLAIN BASKETRY OF PINK AND UNCOLORED FIBER. SHARK TEETH LINE SIDES OF CROSS-GUARDS. SWORD'S HANDLE COVERED W/ PLAIN BASKETRY OF UNCOLORED FIBER. ATTACHED TO BASE OF SWORD'S HANDLE WOVEN LOOPED CORD. MARIE-HELENE SACHET (COLLECTOR) REMARKS OBJECT IS "GILBERTESE, W/ WOVEN DESIGNS, SENNIT STRING AND SHARKS TEETH." ACCORDING TO ADRIENNE KAEPPLER (CURATOR OF OCEANIC ETHNOLOGY) THIS OBJECT IS A CONTEMPORARY MODEL OF U.S. EX. EX. WEAPONS MADE FOR THE TOURIST TRADE.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Feb 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Kiribati Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiribati
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420729
label: USNM Number
content: E428740-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 59.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 11 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 1.3 cm