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Object Number 2004.24.22725
Display Title Wooden war shield
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Weaponry and Warfare
  • Studio
Subject
  • Wood
  • Shield
Department Photographic
Date 1958
Artist David L. De Harport
Culture
  • Melanesia
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / <State> / <County> / <City> / Papuan G.
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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