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Originally Posted by Atlantia
Hi Detlef,
Thanks. I'll have to look for the other types to join mine now 
They look great on the wall don't they?
Is your metal one small?
Would it be possible to see the back of the wooden one?
I'm happy with this first four to start the collection, there is a lot of variation even in them.
Thanks again
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Hi Gene,
yes they look nice at the wall but I am afraid that both from my collection not old ones. The plain brass ones are thick and heavy but the ones we have not so heavy. My brass one have a diameter from 27 cm and the wooden one 43 cm. Since Albert Zonneveld describe in his book on page 106 five types of this shields ( peurise awe/rattan, peurise kajee/wood, peurise nilo/buffalo hide, peurise paru/skin from sting-ray and peurise teumaga/brass) I think that there should be old wooden shields as well. I have heard that these shields was make already in early times for tourists.
Regards,
Detlef