Shield

84-2-42

From: New Guinea | Simbai River

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 84-2-42
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Simbai River
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood
Description

Roughly rectangular, with carved textured decoration similar to that on shield 84-2-16, in this case just two bands slanting towards center from right and left top. Relief squares in four columns, as on 84-2-16. Plain narrow bands crudely carved near center and slanting in from bottom corners. Holes, with fiber tied through, near (vertical) center, quite far in from edges.

Length 113 cm
Width 48.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984

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