- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Painted wooden shield with pointed ends and hair tuft decoration on the front. [LM 21/03/2007]
- Long description
- Painted wooden shield with pointed ends and hair tuft decoration on the front. The shield is painted on front and back with curvilinear designs in red and black. There are rattan bindings near top and bottom, and a vertical wooden grip on the back. [LM 09/05/2007]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1907
- Date collected
- Before 1907
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1907
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Hair, Material Rattan Plant, Process Painted, Process Carved, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Width: max 390 mm, Length: max 1270 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1907.75.19 Other numbers: 2
- Research and responses
"A shield in he shape of a kliau and painted on both sides. The front is richly decorated with clumps of human hair forcefully pressed into the narrow cracks of wood before being secured by means of fresh wax. The hair is allegedly from hunted heads. It completes the designs, making the shield all the more terrifying for one's enemies. Its name is derived from klebit meaning 'shield', and bok meaning 'hair', indicating a strong link between the shield and the hair with which it is decorated." Source: van Zonneveld, A. G. (2001) Traditional Weapons of the Indonesian Archipelago, C. Zwartenkot Art Books: Leiden, pp.69-70 [Research conducted for DCF Cutting Edge Project, HA 18/12/2007]
- Associated publications
- This object features in the Museum's audio guide produced during the DCF-funded 'Cutting Edge’ project, 2007-2009. [HH 20/06/2010]
1907.75.19
Painted wooden shield with pointed ends and hair tuft decoration on the front. [LM 21/03/2007]
On display
1907.75.19
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