2321: SHIELD PAPUA NEW GUINEA OCEANIC TRIBAL ART Start Price USD 1,700.00 Current Price USD 1,600.00 Time Left - Bid Count 2 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, October 10, 2008 End Time Friday, October 10, 2008 Location Alameda, CA See more about '2321: SHIELD PAPUA NEW GUINEA OCEANIC TRIBAL ART' Description Current Lot SHIELD PAPUA NEW GUINEA OCEANIC TRIBAL ART FIGHTING SHIELD, Mendi tribe, Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea. Concave hardwood with red, yellow, and blue-black natural piments, a painted bisected hourglass shape with triangles, an upper and lower incised horizontal band with triangles. Holes at center for attached rope grip. Native repairs to two vertical cracks in midsection. Early to middle part of the 20th century. 56 x 13 x 3 inches. In very good condition, appropriate for age, origin, and mediums. Two vertical cracks with native repairs at midsection, and to one short crack on one end. One end with tip scraped down to bare wood from contact with ground. Painted surface with numerous scrapes. Place a Bid!