Dance Shield
Baining people, New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Tapa cloth, natural pigments, and trade paper stuffing
Ex–Bill Evans, Sydney, Australia, ex–L. Ward, Australia
35½” h x 8” w (90.17 x 20.32 cm)
Price: $1,500
Collected in situ by L. Ward, a Sydney engineer who worked in Papua New Guinea in 1938–9.
