Rare war shield · Papua New Guinea, East Sepik Province, Dreikikir village · ID: 3046948
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Provenance
Marcia & John Friede, “Jolika Collection”, Rye, USATodd Barlin, Sydney, Australia
Size
H: 165 cm
H: 65.0 inch
Description
wood, lime,
A rare shield from the remote village Dreikikir, which lies about 65 kilometers north of Ambunti in the eastern Torricelli Range. The people speak Urat, a Torricelli Phylum language.
A shield with almost identical ornamental motifs, also from Dreikikir, illustrated in Beran and Craig, 2005, p. 90, Fig. 4.25.
The object Rare war shield with the object ID 3046948 was last part of the auction Voyage Tribal Art - Live Online Auction at May 23, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 49.
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Comparing literature
Beran, Harry & Barry Craig (ed.), Shields of Melanesia, Honolulu 2005, p. 90 ff.