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Shield
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Shield
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 139 x 60 x 11 cm
Gewicht: 5,34 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Pigment, Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 41516

Provenance and sources

when
before 1912
where
Melanesia [Großregion]
Northeast New Guinea [Insel/Region]
Upper Sepik [Fluss/Gebiet]
Villages I and II above the border guard camp [Dorf]
Papua New Guinea [Land]

who
Sepik-Expedition (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition) - Collectors

Description
Purchase from Sepik Expedition around 1912

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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