Woven nettle fibre belt decorated with coloured cloth and blue glass beads, carrying seal and sharksin pouches, antler tip and two knives: Sakhalin, Ainu, 19th century

Sword, with curved steel blade half double-edged; hilt of sharkskin-covered wood; tsuba; sword sheath of lacquered wood with bronze mounts chased with sea-dragons; bronze habaki; sageo cord: Japan, blade dated 1828

Sword, with a curved single-edged steel blade, a wooden hilt covered in sharkskin laced with black silk cord, and a sheath of plain black lacquered wood: Japan

Sword, with a curved single-edged steel blade, a wooden hilt covered in shark skin and laced with black silk cord, and a sword sheath of black lacquered wood with longitudinal stripes and sprinkled with mother-of-pearl: Japan, blade 15th century, mount 19th century

Sword of palmwood with edges grooved and fitted with shark's teeth secured by sinnet, with band of shark's skin and coir wrist loop: Micronesia, Republic of Kiribati