- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Sword [.1] with curved single edged blade and ray skin and silk bound hilt and lacquered wooden sheath [.2] with mountings [SM 08/10/2007]
- Long description
- The sword has a copper alloy guard, tsuba, and copper alloy mounted butt that are decorated with leaf patterns. The sheath has a copper alloy chape, locket and band around the lower portion that are also decorated with leaf designs. [SM 08/10/2007]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1939
- Date collected
- By 1939
- Acquisition information
- Bequeathed: 1939
- Materials and processes
- Material Steel Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Lacquer Varnish, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Stingray Skin Fish, Material Silk Textile Animal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Lacquered Varnished, Process Cast, Process Incised, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Width: max 70 mm sword, Width: max 41 mm sheath, Length: max 680 mm sword, Length: max 514 mm sheath
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1938.35.1434.1
Accession number: 1938.35.1434.2
Other numbers: 2104
1970.32.98.2.1Miniature sword [.2] and sheath [.1] bound with plaited cane, with plant fibre carrying sling. Detached hilt [.3]. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 30/3/2005]1970.32.98.2.1
1911.64.117Knife with broad, two edged, obtuse pointed blade with three holes and wooden hilt bound with copper wire. [SM 03/09/2007]1911.64.117
1909.65.14Sword with blade shaped like a spear-head, with grooves. Long wooden handle, the upper part bound with stringwork, the middle part bound with copper alloy, and the very end bound with copper. [El.B 30/10/2007]1909.65.14
1886.1.1382Sword. Carved from wood with perforated sharks teeth bound to the edges of the blade. The sword is elongated and oval in shape, there is a raised central ridge along the length. The teeth are bound with coconut fibre. There is a perforation on the edge of the handle. [AB [OPS Move] 23/5/2017]1886.1.1382