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Ancestral Dance Shield Representing a Frigate Bird (Kai Diba)

1899-1954

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Ancestral Dance Shield Representing a Frigate Bird (Kai Diba)

Ancestral Dance Shield Representing a Frigate Bird (Kai Diba)

1899-1954

Physical Qualities Wood, pigments, 29 x 1 x 29 1/8 in. (73.7 x 2.5 x 74 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1955.251.107
Ancestral Dance Shield Representing a Frigate Bird (Kai diba) Oceanic, New Guinea, Massim, Trobriand Islands (19th century) Wood, polychrome Gift of Alan Wurtzburger BMA 1955.251.105
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Alan Wurtzburger
Wurtzburger Traveling
Douglas F. Fraser & Paul S. Wingret, "The Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art" , BMA 1956 pg 28, 32. ills. 107.
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