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Object type
Shield
Dimensions
Height: 57 cm
Depth: 8 cm
Width: 72,5 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Snails (cowries, Cypraea moneta), Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 9824 b

Provenance and sources

when
before 1888
where
Melanesia
Southeast New Guinea
Dinner island
Samarai
Milne Bay
who
Finsch, Otto - Collectors
Neu-Guinea Compagnie - Former Possessors
Description
Collected by Otto Finsch on behalf of the New Guinea Company, donated by the New Guinea Company in 1888

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