Shield

Museum number:
18-15
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
11-2413 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.683
Description:
Wood shield: all-over painted leech design. Height 46 inches (in center)
Donor:
Matthew Williams Stirling
Collection place:
Headwaters of the Kayan River, North Kalimantan, Borneo
Culture or time period:
Dayak peoples and Indonesian
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shields (armor)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1933
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1976-1977 #64: Southeast Asian Studies Department (UC Berkeley) (March 31, 1977–May 26, 1977)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shield, accession number 18-15, described as Wood shield: all-over painted leech design. Height 46 inches (in center)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shield, accession number 18-15, described as Wood shield: all-over painted leech design. Height 46 inches (in center)

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