Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalShield with feather jewellery
The shield is made of relatively soft wood and has a recessed handle on the back of the shield boss. The painting shows stylized faces as well as highly abstract depictions of birds on both sides of the boss. A braid or wrapping with rattan strips also serves to strengthen the shield. Text: Ulrich Menter
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Sulka
- Object type
- Schild
- Dimensions
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Length: 138 cm
Width: 32 cm
Depth: 12 cm - Material/Technique
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Wood, Rotang, Pigments
, Spring
carved, painted
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 014325
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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around 1900 or earlier
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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East New Britain Province
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Change of physical control
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when
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1901
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- Provenance
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The shield is part of a donation of objects that Bruno Mencke (1877-1901) acquired during a research expedition to the colony of German New Guinea in the years 1900-1901.
Text: Ulrich Menter
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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