Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
Shield and arrows with bilum bag
- Location
- Not on display
- Place of origin
-
Wonenara,
Obura-Wonenara District,
Eastern Highlands Province,
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Baruya people
- Year
- collected 1966
- Media
- Arms & armour
- Medium
- carved wood, 2-ply plant fibre looped bilum arrow holder, 23 carved wood arrows with red pigment, brown dye and lashed with cane and yellow orchid stem, red ochre, black and white pigments, cane, decoration of white and yellow feathers, leaves and dried everlasting flowers
- Dimensions
- 90.0 x 42.5cm overall
:
a - Shield with bilum; 90cm (35 7/16")
a - Shield with bilum; 42.5cm (16 3/4") - Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Accession number
- 258.1978
