Knife: woman's

Museum number:
11-523
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.25
Description:
Short shark’s tooth knife for women
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Gilbert Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia
Verbatim coll. place:
Gilbert Is.
Culture or time period:
Micronesian
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Tooth (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.9 Multiple Utility
Accession date:
December 15, 1901
Department:
Oceania
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)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Knife: woman's, accession number 11-523, described as Short shark’s tooth knife for women
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife: woman's, accession number 11-523, described as Short shark’s tooth knife for women

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