Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalCombat shield
The decoration of the shield shows, among other things, symmetrically arranged colour areas, which together can be interpreted as two highly stylised faces. The multi-coloured rattan braid is limited on the front side to the middle and the upper and lower ends of the shield. In contrast, the entire back is covered with a patterned wickerwork of rattan, leaving only the handle free. Text: Ulrich Menter
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Nakanai
- Object type
- Schild
- Dimensions
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Length: 157 cm
Width: 26 cm
Depth: 11 cm - Material/Technique
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Wood, Rotang, Pigment
carved, painted, braided
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 085121
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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Beginning 20th cent.
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Papua New Guinea
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Change of physical control
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when
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1913
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- Provenance
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The shield entered the collections of the Linden Museum as part of a donation by Dr. Peter Besenbruch in 1913. Besenbruch served as a naval surgeon on the survey ship SMS Planet in 1911/12, which was deployed in the Bismarck Archipelago, among other places.
Text: Ulrich Menter
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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