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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

Data Provider
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Arawe
Object type
Schild
Dimensions
Width: 40 cm
Height: 148 cm
Depth: 9 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Rotang, Pigments
carved, painted
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
085130

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Broom break; 1282
  • Production
    when
    Early 20th cent.
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    West New Britain Province
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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