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Knife
Not on view
In Hawai’ian oratory, the highest-ranking chiefs were referred to metaphorically as “sharks that walk the land,” an epithet indicative of the aweinspiring power and authority that they wielded. This knife is made of twelve large shark teeth, each pierced twice and secured in a shallow groove around the rim with ’olonā fiber.
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