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Shield
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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

when
before 1912
where
Melanesia
Northeast New Guinea
Middle Sepik
Palimbai
Papua New Guinea
who
Sepik-Expedition (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition) - Collectors
Description
Purchase from Sepik Expedition around 1912

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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