Specifications

• Height: 133 cm
• Material: wood, rattan, pigments
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: kliau, kelebit
• Price realised: $ 4600,-

Provenance

Auction house fenton, London, 1896; Christie’s, NY, 6-5-1998, lot 7

Publications

Additional information

The shield has been photographed upside down. The half-figures on both ends are peculiar. On the reverse there is written in white ink ‘Dayak Shield. BT of Fenton. Oct. 1896. P.1340’

Photo credits

Sotheby’s NY