Shield

Museum number:
10-2303
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.541
Description:
Wooden shield; rectangular; painted black; two plaited rattan bands at top and bottom, red; 2 prongs at bottom 3 on top; 40¼ inches by 10¼ inches
Donor:
Roy Franklin Barton
Collection place:
Mountain Province, Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon Island
Culture or time period:
Bontoc
Collector:
Roy Franklin Barton
Collection date:
before 1918
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plaited weaving and Shields (armor)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1918
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1965-1966 #38: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (November 9, 1965–November 9, 1965)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shield, accession number 10-2303, described as Wooden shield; rectangular; painted black; two plaited rattan bands at top and bottom, red; 2 prongs at bottom 3 on top; 40¼ inches by 10¼ inches
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shield, accession number 10-2303, described as Wooden shield; rectangular; painted black; two plaited rattan bands at top and bottom, red; 2 prongs at bottom 3 on top; 40¼ inches by 10¼ inches

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