Shield (Salawaku) | Yale University Art Gallery

19th century

On view, 3rd floor, Indo-Pacific Art

Medium: Wood, shell, bamboo, rattan; inlay
Dimensions: 54 3/4 × 5 7/8 × 3 15/16 in. (139 × 15 × 10 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Holmgren and Anita Spertus, New York
Accession Number: 2011.224.1
Geography: Made in Seram, Moluccas, Indonesia
Culture: probably Alfur
Classification: Arms
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Provenance

Ex-collection: L. F. H. Groenhuisen, Utrecht; Robert Holmgren and Anita Spertus, New York

Bibliography

"Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed March 1, 2012),

Robyn Maxwell, Life, Death, and Magic: 2,000 Years of Southeast Asian Ancestral Art (Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2010), 105

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

armor, shields (armor)

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