shield
- Museum number
- As1855,1220.36
- Description
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Shield made of wood painted red with transversed bands of basketry, grass, leaf (palm).
- Production date
- 19thC (early) (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 124.50 centimetres
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Weight: 2.49 kilograms
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Width: 42.50 centimetres
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Depth: 14.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Demonstrates how the rattan binding helps to prevent the shield splitting in two. (Information from Michael Heppell 2014).
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Register slip: '"Dyak, Borneo 1850. R.T.C. Scott, Surgeon of H.M.S. Hastings." Large wooden shield 4 ft long. 16 1/2 wide. Made of a solid piece of light wood; thin and convex, having a handle cut at the back. Painted red, and ornamented with bands of yellow palm leaf passed through slits in the wood near the edges and continued across both back and front, fastened with zigzag stitching of a black grass. From the Haslar Museum.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As1855,1220.36