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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  The Todd Barlin Collection
• Sale Date:
  17 Aug 2015 ~ 6pm
• Lot #:
  184
• Lot Description:
  An Early War Shield, Asmat, Central Asmat, West Papua
  186 x 39cm
• Provenance:
  Raymond Charles Williams.
• Notes:
  This very early Asmat Shield, was obtained by Raymond Charles Williams who was in the Royal Australian Engineers Corp and stationed on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait during WWII. He brought this shield back with him when he returned, how the shield got to the Torres Strait is unknown, but there was regular trade between the mainland of New Guinea and the Torres Strait. During WWII the Australian Army sent Donald Thomson, the famous anthropologist that had worked in Arnhem Land, to the South Coast of West Papua to scout for Japanese Soldiers, who brought artefacts back from the Asmat which are now in the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne.
• Estimate:
  A$600 - 800
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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