Shield
84-2-74
From: New Guinea | Yuat River (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
Object Number | 84-2-74 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | New Guinea | Yuat River (uncertain) |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Wood | Plant Fiber | Pigment |
Description | Like 84-2-70. No projection at top. At back, instead of peel grips between wooden pieces, cylindrical wooden grips (lower one missing). Predominatly black, with pink and white. Decoration of elongated ovals, in low relief, surrounded by serrated borders. Seven ovals down each side, the borders alternating white and pink. Peel loop knotted through two holes at top. Four faces. Pairs of fiber tassels, red. natural and purple, originally eight on a side (four missing) and in noses of four faces (three missing). |
Length | 163 cm |
Width | 32 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
Other Number | 158 - Other Number | 302? - Other Number |
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