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Shield
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Cataloguing data

Object type
Shield
Dimensions
Diameter: 80 cm
Weight: 5,9 kg
Height: 80 cm
Width: 79 cm
Depth: 10 cm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 9384 a

Provenance and sources

Production
when
before 1888
where
Melanesia
Northeast New Guinea
Astrolabe-Bay
Papua New Guinea
Collecting
who
Finsch, Otto - Collectors
Neu-Guinea Compagnie - Former Possessors
Change of legal title:
Acquisition
Description
Donation from New Guinea Company 1888
Assignment to a curated holding:
Oceania

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