War shield ·  Papua New Guinea - Highlands · ID: 3033752

Description

wood, of flat rectangular form with a slightly curved upper rim, dyed with red pigment, vertical stripes with black contours filled with white pigment, a pair of drilled holes in the upper and in the lower third, for fixing of plant fibre handles, slightly dam., cracks (backside on the upper rim spread with blackish mass), minor missing parts, paint rubbed off, water spots

The object War shield with the object ID 3033752 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 63.

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Comparing literature

H. Beran, B. Craig (ed.), Shields of Melanesia, Honolulu 2005, p. 142