Sword
- Museum number:
- 9-8960a
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2109008960a
- Accession number:
- Acc.2472
- Description:
- Sword (rusty, damaged tip) with incised curving design, 7 pierced holes in blade; carved dragon wired to hilt; length 65 cm.
- Donor:
- Hiroaki Okada
- Collection place:
- HokkaidÅ Prefecture, Hokkaido, Japan
- Culture or time period:
- Ainu
- Collector:
- Hiroaki Okada
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Dragons
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- 1969
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Images:
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