Shield
Trobriand Islands
Papua New Guinea
Wood
Overall: 26 in. (66 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27875
Geography
Place Made: Trobrian Islands, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Armament
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
Peoples of Oceania: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-30, 1995.
The Art of War: Melanesian and Polynesian Expressions of Beauty and Violence, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 27-May 13, 2001.
Provenance
Julius Carlebach, New York; Harry A. Franklin, Los Angeles, California, 1950; Harry A. Franklin Family, Los Angeles, California, 1983; lent to present collection, 1990; given to present collection, 2002.
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