2000.31.1.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Knife or sword [.1] with sheath [.2] and dagger [.3].

Long description

Knife or sword [.1] with sheath [.2] and dagger [.3]. The sword has a metal blade and cream-coloured plastic hilt (to imitate ivory) with a tuft of goat? hair at the end. Below the plastic part of the hilt is a string-wrapped grip which has been painted with black, brown and yellow paint. The sword is held in a wooden painted sheath. The sheath is painted black and brown with designs in yellow paint. The sheath is decorated with tassels of red plastic beads ending in ruminant (cattle) incisor teeth. There are sections of ?goat hair attached to the sheath. The sheath also contains a bound on section for holding a smaller knife or dagger. This dagger has a painted wooden hilt and metal blade. This object was probably made for sale to tourists as all three parts are extremely clumsily made. [MdeA 23/11/2001]

Geographical reference

Malaysia

Asia > South-eastern Asia > Malaysia

Indonesia

Asia > South-eastern Asia > Indonesia

Cultural groups

Iban

Person

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Karen Rodham

Date / Period

Date made: Before 2000

Date collected

By 2000

Acquisition information

Donated: 31/08/2000

Materials and processes

Material Bead, Material Plastic Synthetic, Material Cattle Tooth Animal, Material Pigment, Material Metal, Material String, Material Goat Hair Animal, Process Carved, Process Painted

Dimensions

Length: max 725 mm total, excluding hair tuft, Length 198 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 2000.31.1.1 Accession number: 2000.31.1.2 Accession number: 2000.31.1.3

Search terms: Weapon, Trade, Tool, Toy and Game, Model, Knife, Sword, Sheath, Dagger, Toy