Shield

84-2-16

From: New Guinea | Simbai River

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 84-2-16
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Simbai River
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Plant Fiber | Pigment
Description

Roughly rectangular, with carved decoration consisting of two broad zig-zags down the sides, enclosing a lozenge-shaped area in the center. The broad zig-zags consist of small squares, carved in relief and arrayed in four columns. Holes, through which a braided fiber rope is threaded, at (vertical) center, a bit in from sides. Colored black, with some white in flat ground around carved zig-zags.

Length 112 cm
Width 44.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984

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