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Fremantle Prison > Records

SHIV

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Overview

Long, thin, triangular, metal shiv. Long, 4mm thick piece of triangular metal, with a sharpened edge, coming to a sharp point at one end. Wrapped around the opposite wide end of the metal is thick, yellow masking tape.

Historical information

Provenanced to Fremantle Prison.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-89-1998.72

Item type

Material

Width

30 mm

Height or length

194 mm

Depth

4 mm

Contextual Information

Illicit improvised weapons, as well as everyday innocuous items that have been modified by prisoners to turn them into weapons, are known in prison slang as a 'shiv'.

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Scientific or research significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

Geotag

-32.054847403269, 115.7536591

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Fremantle Prison

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