Bouclier de guerre · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Sepik, May River/ Iwam · ID: 3042822
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Provenance
Bloom, Cambridge/Boston, USA (1950s)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
Littérature comparée
Conru, Kevin, Oceanic Shields, Brussels 2006, ill. 14