Solomon Islands, Makira (San Cristobal) | Parrying Shield or Club, Qauata

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Formerly in the collection of Wiliam Ockelford Oldman (1879-1949), London, Inv. No. 1625.

c.f., Kevin Conru, Solomon Islands Art, pub. 2008, p.111;
c.f. Jean-Edouard Carlier, Regard sur les Isles Salomon, Paris, p.37;
c.f. James Edge-Partington, Second Album, Privately Published, 1890.