Bouclier de guerre
Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Sepik, May River/ Iwam
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Provenance
Bloom, Cambridge/Boston, USA (1950s)Taille
H: 178,5 cm B: 47,5 cm
H: 70.3 inch B: 18.7 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, red, white and black pigment, frontside covered with incised ornamental decor: by a broad band in the middle divided in two halves with laterally reversed patterns (mainly jags and round forms, resp. concentric circles), double handle with plant fibre grip backside, slightly dam. (rims), crack and round deepening in central place (from battle?), abrasion of paint, base