Four interesting Atjeh Peurises!

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by freebooter

Beautiful Maurice :-)

Antique shields from most cultures are beautiful and rare items.
I do like the variety to have obtained greatly. My study of the weapons I bought from Kelling Hall have certainly created a personal interest in Sumatran items and I am enjoying viewing these pieces.
As noted, cloth of these shields is very rarely seen these days but looking at the darker shield, it does not look like cloth...what covers it?
Thank you for sharing and I look forward to more discussion on these items.

Gav

Thanks Gav,

Because of your Kelling Hall collection my interest was growing and growing. And when I got the little shield covered with coton, which is coming out of the depot of the Nijmeegs Volkenkundig museum, I decided to collect more Atjeh pieces...

The darker shield is also covered in cloth (from the frontside, the back is all gone and the ratan is only there).
It could be that the cloth was lighter in colour once, but got so dark because of dirt and dust??

I read somewhere that the cloth covering these peurises used to be red or black. But I can't recall in which book I read it.

Maurice