A WAR SHIELD, EAST SEPIK PROVINCE, PAPUA NEW GUINEA,

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 AUD

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Description

160.8 by 48 cm

carved in wood, the elongated ovoid form tapering to a rectangular base, the front with deeply engraved traditional motifs incorporating four faces infilled with red, yellow and white pigments, the reverse is decorated with raised supports, each pierced twice and a trace of a rafia attachment

Provenance

Jerome Gould, Los Angeles
Private Collection

Catalogue Note

Cf. Beran, H. and Craig, B. Shields of Melanesia, Crawford House, Belair, 2005, pp.84-5, figs.4.15, for a very similar war shield with an almost identical design made by Mauwi of Gahom Village