Shield | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Shield
The narrow, elongated decorative shield is adorned with carvings and paintings in white, red and black pigments. In the centre, two heads mirror one another on the horizontal axis, which are - depicted with earrings and a triangular-shaped headdress pointing upward - completely identical. Shields of this kind were worn at ceremonial dances in the northwest of New Britain. They were closely related to ancestor worship and belief in spirits.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Schild
Dimensions
Breite: 160.0 mm, Länge: 1500.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1138
Provenance and sources
when
around 1880
when
13.10.1898
where
New Britain (formerly New Pomerania) (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)
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