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Details
a fine gilbert Islands shark-tooth dagger
The wooden shaft attached each side with ten shark teeth pierced and bound with coconut fibre, the tip with sting ray spine, the tapered grip with dark and pale bands of very finely twisted coconut fibre, further fibre retainig wrist thong
41cm. long
The wooden shaft attached each side with ten shark teeth pierced and bound with coconut fibre, the tip with sting ray spine, the tapered grip with dark and pale bands of very finely twisted coconut fibre, further fibre retainig wrist thong
41cm. long
Provenance
James Hooper, no.970, bought in Nottingham 1946
Literature
Phelps, S.J., Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, London, 1976, p.432, Pl.123