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Shield

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Shield with handle, richly decorated and curved shape, red-orange paintings, glued cotton, white shading, carvings at the upper end

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Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Warlpiri
Object type
Schild
Dimensions
L 64.5 cm W 23 cm D 55 cm
Material/Technique
wood (plant material), pigments carved, summarised
Object genre
weapon
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2045
Other number(s)
2045 (Old inventory number)
Linden-Museum: 85322 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    when
    before 1913
    where
    Nordterritorium
    Australien
    Description
    Supplement to the place: with the regions Central Australia and Northern Australia Wikidata for Central Australia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18103669
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    when
    1910-1913
    where
    Australien
    who
    Liebler, Oskar (1884 - 1943) - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Purchase
    when
    13.03.1913
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Owners
    Description
    "The Liebler Collection was purchased by the Linden-Museum Stuttgart on 13 March 1913" (Schlatter, Gerhard, 1985: Bumerang und Schwirrholz. Berlin: Reimer, 25).
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners

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CC0 1.0 DEED

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