Wooden Dagger

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Wooden Dagger

Artist: Unknown

Culture: Society Islands, Polynesia

Date: 19th century

Medium: Wood

Dimensions:

l. 16 1/8 in. (41 cm); w. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)

Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Lino Addicks

Object number: 58.253.3

Label Text

While the people of Oceania had the capability to make exquisite obsidian blades that were razor sharp, these blades were both brittle and difficult to fabricate. As a consequence, for ceremonial and combat uses they made beautiful daggers out of wood, often with incised decoration, like this example.

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Wooden Dagger

Wooden Dagger