Shield

Shield

  • Artist

    Unknown artist

  • Production Date

    Unknown

  • Medium

    wood, pigment

  • Size

    1350 x 440 mm

  • Credit

    Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 1988

  • Accession Number

    C1994/1/289

  • Accession Date

    Jul 1988

  • Department

    International Art

  • Classification

    Object

  • Collection

    Chartwell

  • Subjects

    shields (armor), artifacts

  • Description

    This New Guinean gope (ancestor) board has a paired design of outlined masks, one above the other. The two faces intersect with pictographically rendered birds that are seen in silhouette. While the tribe that carved and painted this shield is currently not known, it is possible that they it is from the southeastern Gulf of Papua. (Te Moananui a Kiwa, 2005)

Exhibition history