Shield

Maker
Kabol
Description
In 1974 Waikato Museum acquired a selection of items, including this shield, from Graham Jackson. Jackson was a New Zealand anthropologist who spent time living with and researching the Kopon and the Kalam people of the Lower Kaironk Valley in Papua New Guinea.
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Maker
Media/Materials
Tapi tree wood and hand-made rope fibre.
Measurements
1020 x 790mm - LxW
Production place
Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Bismarck-Schrader Ranges, Madang
Collection
Graham Jackson Collection/New Guinea Collection/Ethnology
Department collection type
Ethnology
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1974/64/209

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