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Sword Sword

Wooden sword with edges grooved and armed with shark's teeth secured with sinnet: Micronesia, Republic of Kiribati

Sword Sword

Sword with flat wooden blade edged with shark's teeth fastened with cord, and handle wrapped with leaf: Micronesia, Republic of Kiribati

Dagger Dagger

Dagger of wood with edges grooved and fitted with shark's teeth secured by sinnet: Micronesia, Republic of Kiribati

Sword Sword

Sword made of whalebone with edges grooved and fitted with shark's teeth secured by sinnet: Micronesia, probably Republic of Kiribati, 19th century

Dagger Dagger

Dagger composed of a ridged wooden blade grooved at the edges and fitted with shark's teeth tied on with sinnet: Micronesia, Republic of Kiribati

Spear Spear

Wooden spear with edges of shaft and two prongs on lower end mounted with shark's teeth: Micronesia, Republic of Kiribati

Spear Spear

Wooden spear with upper half mounted on both edges with shark's teeth set in grooves and fastened with fibre, and lower half wrapped in pandanus leaf tied on with coir: Micronesia, Republic of Kiribati

Spear Spear

Wooden spear with shark's teeth attached: Micronesia, Republic of Kiribati

Gorget Gorget

Gorget from a ceremonial dress, consisting of a semi-elliptical framework of cane covered with plaited sinnet and decorated with three rows of sharks' teeth upon a background of black feathers: Polynesian, from the Society Islands, 18th or 19th century

Knife Knife

Knife (niho 'oki) consisting of a short wooden handle, waisted midway and flaring to the base which is cut flat, with two large shark teeth set in a groove in its upper edge and kept in position by lashings through a central hole in the head, probably collected by Captain Cook on his last voyage, 1776-1779: Polynesian, Hawaiian Islands

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