Shield
84-2-42
From: New Guinea | Simbai River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-2-42 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Simbai River |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | Roughly rectangular, with carved textured decoration similar to that on shield 84-2-16, in this case just two bands slanting towards center from right and left top. Relief squares in four columns, as on 84-2-16. Plain narrow bands crudely carved near center and slanting in from bottom corners. Holes, with fiber tied through, near (vertical) center, quite far in from edges. |
| Length | 113 cm |
| Width | 48.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
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