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Shield, Dekat, 19th century
Wood, pigment
160 x 30.5 x 22.9 cm (63 x 12 x 9 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.191

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Collected on La Korrigane Expedition, 1935 (D.39.3/856) in Kaningara village. The purchase price was a small axe. Ernst Heinrich Collection, Bad Canstadt, Stuttgart." (Catalog #276, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 127.) EXHIBITIONS: 1985-88 - Tribal Art Centre, Base, 1985-88, "Authority and Ornament." PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "Kelm, 1966, vol. 1, nos. 196 and 197, publishes two examples collected in the Iatmul villages of Yentchan and Kararau in 1912 on the Kaiserin-Augusta River Expedition. These shields were traded over the middle Sepik region, but their origin was with the Kaningara people." (Catalog #276, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 127.) 1985 - Greub, 1985, cat. 20. 1968 - Sotheby's, London, June 25, 1968, lot 83.

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