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Shield
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
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Cultural attribution
Arawe
Object type
Schild
Dimensions
Breite: 40 cm, Höhe: 148 cm, Tiefe: 9 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Rotang, Pigments
carved, painted
carved, painted
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
085130
Provenance and sources
Provenance
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
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