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Slashing weapon, studded with shark teeth, Kiribati (Oceania)

Baton strung with shark teeth in four rows, the upper half in two rows. Handle moulded into the wood with an implied spherical pommel. Provenance: Gilbert Islands, Kiribati Archipelago, Kiribati, Oceania. The object belongs to the estate of the senior general practitioner Georg Wilke (*1859 Dresden +1938 Rochlitz), which initially went to the teaching collection of the Rochlitz secondary school after his death and was transferred to the collection of Rochlitz Castle in the 1960s.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
weapons
Dimensions
H x W: 4 cm x 92 cm, D: 2.8 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, raffia, shark teeth; carved, mounted
Current location
State palaces, castles and gardens of Saxony gGmbH, Rochlitz Castle
Inventory number
Roc_E_VI_000065
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1875-1900
    where
    Kiribati

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED
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