- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden shield. It is rectangular in shape with pointed ends. The shield has sloping sides from the central line running the length of the shield. It is painted with black abstracted faces with tusks on the front of the shield with tufts of black hair. There is a metal section in the centre of the shield along the midpoint of one of the abstracted faces. On the back there are abstracted designs painted in black and stitched cane work. There is a carved wooden handle on the interior. [CW [OPS move] 3/8/2016]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1900
- Date collected
- By 1900
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 13/03/1900
- Materials and processes
- Material Pigment, Material Hair, Material Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Process Painted, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1179 mm, Width: max 337 mm, Height: max 103 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1900.63.7 Other numbers: 4
1900.63.7
Wooden shield. It is rectangular in shape with pointed ends. The shield has sloping sides from the central line running the length of the shield. It is painted with black abstracted faces with tusks on the front of the shield with tufts of black hair. There is a metal section in the centre of the shield along the midpoint of one of the abstracted faces. On the back there are abstracted designs painted in black and stitched cane work. There is a carved wooden handle on the interior. [CW [OPS move] 3/8/2016]
1900.63.7
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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