Excellent Pre-contact fighting shield from Ramu River, East Sepik area, Papua New Guinea. It´s very unusual that the basketry weaving is intact on Ramu River shields. Age late 19th to early 20th Century. Very good condition.

 128 x 50 cm 50,4 x 19,7 in

Provenance: Doctor Bertil Örndahl (1923-2012). Örndahl worked as a doctor in many countries and travelled a lot in Africa, SE Asia and PNG in the 1960´s and collected many items during his travels.

Price on request