War Shield
Artist:
Unknown
Culture: Arawe people
Date: early- 20th century
Medium: Painted wood and cane
Dimensions:
h. 57 3/4 in. (146.7 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 78.1261
Label Text
The swirling designs contained within fields of incised decoration combine with the three-panel cane-bound fabrication to indicate that this war shield was probably made in the Saeka Village of the Arawe people of the South Coast of New Britain.
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