Shark tooth knife (reproduction)
Tools
- Object status:
- Deaccessioned
- Museum number:
- 11-1245
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110001245
- Accession number:
- Acc.334
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Model of shark's tooth knife, leiomano.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Hawaiian Islands
- Verbatim coll. place:
- ; Gilbert Islands
- Culture or time period:
- Hawaiian and Micronesian
- Collector:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Ground stone and Manos (food mills)
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
- Accession date:
- 1908
- Department:
- Oceania
- Comment:
- Description: "Wood handle, median attachment of tooth, finger loop of olona fiber." (Fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns, August 2, 1983) Remarks: "Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter Buck), "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii", p. 447, Fig. 287a - under "weapons"." "Exhibited 1978 Settlement of Polynesia" Blue card: "Shark tooth implement, probably used for cutting food or hair, or for wood carving. Implements with more than one tooth were generally used as weapons. (UCLMA 11-1245)
- Loans:
- S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)