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Toothed wooden sword · leather loop

single-edged toothed blade · dark hardwood · with a hanging loop

Item no. 090-671-000

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Description

A long wooden sword with a row of stout teeth along one edge and a leather loop at the grip end. Dark hardwood, worked smooth all round.

The form

The toothed sword goes back to a weapon type of the Pacific: in Kiribati shark teeth were bound into wooden strips, while the Maya and Mexico set obsidian into a wooden shaft. Here the teeth are carved from the same piece of wood — which makes this a replica, not a weapon. The teeth are rounded, not sharpened.

Honest placing

There is no signature, no date, no stated origin. What can be said: cleanly carved, even spacing of the teeth, the wood thoroughly seasoned. A wall piece with presence — not an ethnographic original.