Can anyone help me figure out what this is? My grandma got it for me when I was real young when she was on vacation in some country. Not sure where she was. The box in picture 2 explains the knife and calls it “the reeve” made out of fish bone, shark teeth, and coconut wood. Nothing online about it.

3 Comments

1. wonderous2020 6 months ago

   It is a craft knife. Something someone in another country made to look like a knife out of what they had around. I think it is cool but it isn’t practical in any sense. There are polynesian and micronesian weapons made with shark teeth and fish bones but they don’t look like this.

2. bmbreath 6 months ago

   https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1006153

   https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1029381605-traditional-shark-tooth-knives-sale-tourists-tabuaeran

   I think it’s probably a tourist shop version of this maybe?

3. Holler_Professor 6 months ago

   Pretty neat souvenir at the very least.