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Description: | Marked 'NEW ZEALAND' and E.352 CULT Maori New Zealand Polynesia The knife has an oval head with slightly curve handle and a single row of teeth lashed to the bottom, which appear to be the teeth of a Sevengill shark. It is decorated with an open curvilinear design on both sides with two serrated shell circles on each and a semi spiral carved into the pommel. It is thought to have been a ceremonially important object, as the elaborate carving is more decorative than functional.
The knife is very similar in form to two ceremonial knives in Oxford and the British museum, thought to be from the voyages of Captain Cook, while the MDA cards reads 'gift from Captain King' on unknown evidence. It has been included in the Robertson catalogue as donor unknown, and may be No. 3 of Captain John Laskey's 1813 account of the museum, wrongly attributed to the Friendly Isles. In this case it may have been part of the Old Hunterian Collection. E. W. MacKie attributes the knife to Cook's third voyage in Queen Charlotte's Sound. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCARIFIER : CEREMONIAL : SAINEX : ETHNOSTAR_2007 : MAORI : JEN : PCOOK : BRANLY_2008 : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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