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Shield

CultureMelanesian
MediumWood and pigment
DimensionsOverall: 64 × 21 × 10 inches (162.56 × 53.34 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.117
On View
Not on view
DescriptionA wooden shield with deeply-carved and painted motifs.Provenance

With Jonathan and Linda Batkin;

Gifted to the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, November, 2020-2025;

The Coe Center's gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2025.

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