Highlight objects

A selection of highlight objects on display in the exhibition Dazzling the enemy: shields from the Pacific.

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  Bowman’s shield, late 1800s, Maiva area, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea
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  Shield made of wood from Papua New Guinea

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  This photograph shows three men holding shields, the men on the far left and right are holding it as it would have been worn in action. Photographed by Rev. William G Lawes in 1881.
  Registration number: BM Oc, B26.2

  Photograph of three men holding shields

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  Painted metal shield by Kaipel Ka, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, Wahgi people, AD 1980s
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  Painted metal shield from Papua New Guinea

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  Painted wooden shield, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, Wahgi people, 1980s AD
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  Painted wooden shield from Papua New Guinea

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  War shield, mid-1900s, Urapmin people, Highlands, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
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  Wooden shield decorated with a red, white and black pattern

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  Telefomin man holding a shield (BM number Oc.1964.03.81). Photograph Bryan A.L. Cranstone, British Museum Expedition to Papua New Guinea, December 1963 to May 1964.
  Registration number: OcF.T.5538

  Photograph of a shield being held by a Telefomin man

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  Wooden war shield, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, Sulka people, possibly early 20th century AD
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  Wooden war shield from Papua New Guinea

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  War shield with green and pink parrot feathers, late 1800s, Central Province, Papua New Guinea
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  Shield made of wood and decorated with green and pink feathers

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  Rabu Banaky, son of Koapena, a powerful Aroma chief - New Guinea. This studio portrait, by G.H. Woodelton taken in the mid 19th century, shows a Central Province man dressed in war regalia.

  Photograph of a young Aroma man holding a shield

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  Child’s shield, late 1800s, Orokaiva people, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea
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  Child's shield made of wood

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  War shield, late 1800s, Karkar Island, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
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  Rectangular wooden shield

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  Detail of a sling stone in a war shield, late 1800s, Karkar Island, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea

  Detail of a sling stone in a wooden shield

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  War shield, late 1800s, Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
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  Painted shield made of wood, ochre and cane

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  War shield, early 1900s, South Asmat, West Papua
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  Shield made of wood from Papua New Guinea

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  Lady Broughton, adventurer and photographer, captured the moment in which a warrior of the Safan area, presented a shield (BM number 1936.720.250, see previous image) to the collector, Lord Moyne, in 1935.

  Photograph of men in Papua New Guinea holding a shield made of wood

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  Shell-inlaid shield, Central Solomon Islands, around AD 1860
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  Shell-inlaid shield

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  Ceremonial shield, Gela Island, Solomon Islands, possibly early 19th century AD
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  Ceremonial shield from the Solomon Islands