Round Wooden Shield
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Shield (with inscriptions in the back) made of wood.
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Date
Made by: 19thC (early) (circa)
The item has a similar tag as another GA Frank Wooden Shield https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/2572 - faintly discernible date is 1887 - but this is not verified.
The item has a similar tag as another GA Frank Wooden Shield https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/2572 - faintly discernible date is 1887 - but this is not verified.
Identifier
As1894,-.389
Origin
Mindanao
Materials
wood, inscriptions in ink
Physical Dimensions
Diameter: 82 centimetres
Weight: 5.54 kilograms
Depth: 18 centimetres
Weight: 5.54 kilograms
Depth: 18 centimetres
Provenance
Purchased from: G A Frank. Mr Frank sold shields and spears to the Museum in 1894; other varied Ethnographical items acquired as part of the Franks Collection in 1891.
See Christy Correspondence:
List of Ethnographical Specimens from North New Guinea purchased from Mr Frank, 9 Haverstock Hill, NW and List of New Guinea objects purchased by J Edge Partington Esq
See Christy Correspondence:
List of Ethnographical Specimens from North New Guinea purchased from Mr Frank, 9 Haverstock Hill, NW and List of New Guinea objects purchased by J Edge Partington Esq
Acquisition Date
1894
Related Object
See similarly shaped round shields at the BM
http://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/2572
http://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/2572
Display status
Not on Display
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https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_As1894-389
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“Round Wooden Shield,” Mapping Philippine Material Culture, accessed May 31, 2023, https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/2573.
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