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Shield
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Shield
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 92,5 x 45 x 10 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Snails (cowries, Cypraea moneta), Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 9824 c

Provenance and sources

when
before 1888
where
Melanesia [Großregion]
Southeast New Guinea [Insel/Region]
Dinner island [Insel]
Samarai
Milne Bay [Bucht (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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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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