Wooden Shield
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Apr 1981
label: Collection Date
content: 1950
name: label: Collector
content: Ladd I. Johnson
label: Donor Name
content: Estate of Ladd I. Johnson
notes: label: Notes
content: LONG, ESSENTIALLY RECTANGULAR, FLAT BOARD, WITH HANDLE CARVED ON BACK & SMALL HUMAN HEAD AT TOP END. FRONT DEEPLY CARVED INTO A SERIES OF DOUBLE CURVES WHICH ARE PAINTED BROWN, OUTLINED IN BLACK, AGAINST A WHITE GROUND. REFER: R.A.M. BERGMAN, "ASMAT, ART FROM SOUTHWEST NEW GUINEA," ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE, 121, FIG. 47A.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Irian Jaya (Western New Guinea/Papua), Indonesia, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Asmat
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 345292
label: USNM Number
content: E421935-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 142 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 35 cm