Plaited shield "nguba" · D. R. Congo, Ngombe · ID: 3040753
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Size
H: 141 cm
H: 55.5 inch
Description
rattan frame, plant fibre, woven in several crisscross layers of reed and small slats, held together with rattan fibres to form a tight wickerwork, decorated with geometrical patterns in dark paint, wooden handle board backside, min. dam., slight traces of usage, small missing parts
The object Plaited shield “nguba” with the object ID 3040753 was last part of the auction 83rd Tribal Art Auction at May 28, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 438.
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Comparing literature
Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Dieter Plaschke, Afrikanische Schilde, München 1992, p. 115, ill. 105