Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalShield
This shield made of three wooden planks shows on the front side a total of 8 pairs of circle motifs arranged one below the other. Another variant of shield decoration among the Arawe consists of four pairs of concentric circles separated by serrated lines. The reverse side shows more individual patterns, which have their counterparts in the decoration of the bark cloth used as clothing. Text: Ulrich Menter
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- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Arawe
- Object type
- Schild
- Dimensions
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Width: 40 cm
Height: 148 cm
Depth: 9 cm - Material/Technique
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Wood, Rotang, Pigments
carved, painted
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 085130
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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Early 20th cent.
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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West New Britain Province
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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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