Shark tooth club "te toanea", "te winnarei" or "te tuangai" ·  Kiribati - îles Gilbert · ID: 3052354

Description

sword-shaped body made of (coconut) wood, edges lined on both sides with shark teeth (30 pcs., 6 missing), which are fixed with fine grass fibre binding, handle area with intact covering made of leaf material

Human hair has been added to some of the fibres used to attach the shark teeth, which certainly had magical significance.