Payback dagger & lime container - Sepik river - Papua New Guinea (No Reserve Price)
No. 84285661
Fighting shield with powerfull motive - eastern highlands - Papua New Guinea (No Reserve Price)
No. 84285661
Fighting shield with powerfull motive - eastern highlands - Papua New Guinea (No Reserve Price)
Field collected 1990’s
From the 1980s – 1990s the Phantom re-emerged on battle shields during a renewed period of inter-tribal fighting in parts of the Papua New Guinea highlands. For a brief period, the Wahgi people of the Western Highlands Province revived and re-painted old battle shields with new designs that transformed the shields into communicative forms. This expanded design repertoire included numbers, text, appropriated logos as well as representations of ‘good guys’ such as Superman and the Phantom.
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