Rare bouclier de combat · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Province du Sepik oriental, village Dreikikir · ID: 3046948
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Provenance
Marcia & John Friede, “Jolika Collection”, Rye, USATodd Barlin, Sydney, Australia
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.
Littérature comparée
Beran, Harry & Barry Craig (ed.), Shields of Melanesia, Honolulu 2005, p. 90 ff.