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knife

human history
  • Ingoa Kē

    sword

    mandau

  • Kupu whakaahua

    Hunters knife, mandau

    Made from bamboo, wood, palm leaf, cotton textile, metal, hide, cane, and bone. A knife and a blade that fits in to a scabbard. The scabbard is a piece of long hollowed wood with folded palm leaf for the second scabbard that is tied together with cane. The wood scabbard is carved with abstract designs and also has wrapped cane creating ornate patterns, cane also secures a tuft of dense hair in white and black. A wrapped cotton textile belt loop passed through the palm leaf scabbard

    the knife that sits inside the wooden scabbard has a long blade with ornate curl designs on the blade and has inlay spiral and dot designs. The handle is made from carved bone with a hook at the top with carved designs, at the end of the bone hook is a short tuft of hair and at the top of the handle is a long tuft of hair.

    The blade that fits in the palm leaf sheath has a small blade that is secured a cylindrical wooden shaft with metal wire, at the end of the shaft is a curved and pointed bone

  • Wāhi
  • Accession Number
    2001.39.1
  • Rā Tāpiringa
    31 Dec 2001
  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    55924 (ethnology)

  • Wāhanga
knife, hunter's

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