- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Weapon with shark tooth head. [MJD (Verve) 23/5/2017]
- Long description
- Shark tooth weapon. The weapon is an axe-shaped piece of wood with a shark tooth tied at the tip with coconut fibre string. The string has broken. The wood is lozenge shaped in section, and pointed at the end. There are two holes drilled through the handle. [MJD (Verve) 23/5/2017]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1878
- Date collected
- By 1878
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 10/02/1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Palm Wood Plant, Material Shark Tooth Fish, Material Sennit Coconut Seed Fibre Plant, Material String, Process Bound, Process Drilled, Process Tied
- Dimensions
- Length: max 387 mm, Width: max 104 mm, Depth: max 30 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.1.1383 Other numbers: 44 384 364 1309
- Research and responses
* There is a note in the Ramsden collectors volume stating 'Retrospective numbers written in pencil down left hand column June 1975 E.S.G. Collated with A.M. but considerable problems encountered. All Ramsden seem to be in A.M.' Note that this exercise may have been the source of the confusion that occurred during Elizabeth Sandford Gunn's work on the Ashmolean collection with regard to numbers. In some instances, these numbers SEEM to have been used to number the objects (wrongly). [AP 15/7/99]
1886.1.1383
Weapon with shark tooth head. [MJD (Verve) 23/5/2017]
1886.1.1383
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