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May River Shield
Details:
Origin: East Sepik Province, Papua New Guineas
Age: First Half 20th Century
Materials: Wood, fibre, pigment
Size: 77.5 x 12.5 inchesProvenance
Collected by Ingeborg de Beausacq in the 1950s
Julius Carleback, New York, 1964, label on the back, number SP1305
By descent to Josefa Carlebach
Private New York Collection