Gilbert Island
The Gilbert Islands are unique in having knives and weapons made from palm wood with sharks’ teeth attached by woven coconut fibre cord
Dagger and tool or weapon, Gilbert Island, Grainger Coll. pre-1890. The dagger has 15 pairs of bicuspid shark teeth bound with coir to pierced blade. The tool or weapon has one shark tooth inset into the shaft, held in place by coir and vegetable fibre bindings.
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