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SHIV
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
