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Shield
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Cataloguing data

Object type
Shield
Dimensions
Height: 153 cm
Width: 35 cm
Depth: 17 cm
Weight: 7 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Rattan (Rotang, Rotan), Pigment
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 41711

Provenance and sources

Production
when
before 1912
where
Melanesia
Northeast New Guinea
Middle Sepik
Palimbai
Papua New Guinea
Collecting
who
Sepik-Expedition (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition) - Collectors
Change of legal title:
Acquisition
Description
Purchase from Sepik Expedition around 1912
Assignment to a curated holding:
Oceania

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