OTHER
Artist unknown :[Shark toothed sword. ca 1950]
- Date
- 1950
- By
- Beach, Earle, active 2008
- Reference
- Curios-032-039
- Description
Sword with wooden handle, the blade covered with woven flax. Shark's teeth stand out on both edges of the blade, tied in place with light brown and dark brown cord.
A few of the shark's teeth are missing from the edges, about eight from one side and six from the other.
Sword estimated by Gail Clay, to be dated ca 1950.
Quantity: 1 curio(s).
Physical Description: Wood, shark tooth, flax, cord, 620 x 52 mm.
Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-8935 - Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here..
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Format
- 1 curio(s), Curios, Woodwork, Ethnographic illustrations, Wood, shark tooth, flax, cord, 620 x 52 mm.
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