War shield ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Hautes-Terres · 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

Littérature comparée

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