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Wooden Shield
Object Number 2004.24.28272
Display Title Wooden Shield
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Weaponry and Warfare
  • Ethnographic
  • Studio
Subject
  • Wood
  • Shield
Department Photographic
Date 1978
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Asmat
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Indonesia / Western New Guinea / Irian Jaya
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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