Hi Nonoy,
thank you very much for your comment! I took me some time to follow the tracks of this shield. It has been collected in the beginning of the sixties last century in the cordillera by the German ethnologist Karl Pfadenauer (Author of "Ethnologie der marginalen Stämme", Munich 1996) and it stays with him until 1984, when I bought it. He was a heavy smoker and everything in his flat had a pipe smell. So I had a good feeling, but ...you are right, even before WW II objects had been produced for dealers. Thanks again
Udo
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