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Description: | Dagger made from a crocodile jaw bone. Kampong River. New guinea.
Dagger, from New Guinea, made from crocodile jaw bone, hilt wrapped in sennet, a creeper, made into twine and bound in a pattern. Coix seeds round the base of the sennet wrapping. The last tooth of the jaw remains at the top of the hilt.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 36.96 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | plant fibre seed bone daggers (weapons: edged) War- and Peace-making | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-62369 | Go to resource |
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