War shield · Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain, Vitu Islands · ID: 3032988
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Provenance
Dave de Roche, Piedmont, USASize
H: 188 cm
H: 74.0 inch
Description
wood, black paint, red and white pigment, front- and backside with incised flat decor (fish tail motif), carved handle backside, enforced to the front, slightly dam.
The object War shield with the object ID 3032988 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 32.
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Comparing literature
Menter, Ulrich, Ozeanien - Kult und Visionen, München, Berlin, London, New York 2003, ill. 120
Exhibition
Auct. Cat., Dave DeRoche, San Francisco, Art of Africa Oceania and the Americas, 30 September 1995, Lot 84