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Details
An Admiralty Islands knife and two Gilbert Islands daggers
The first with triangular obsidian blade and gum handle finely decorated with typical notched black and white ornament on a red ground; one dagger of curved form, five shark's teeth remaining on cane strips with two-colour fibre binding, the other with seven teeth each side and with coconut fibre wrist thong, old label
28cm., 20cm. and 26cm. long (3)
The first with triangular obsidian blade and gum handle finely decorated with typical notched black and white ornament on a red ground; one dagger of curved form, five shark's teeth remaining on cane strips with two-colour fibre binding, the other with seven teeth each side and with coconut fibre wrist thong, old label
28cm., 20cm. and 26cm. long (3)
Provenance
Lt.-Gen. A.H.L.-F. Pitt-Rivers, Farnham, Dorset, bought from H.G.Carr, 31 March 1884 for the last