Igorot armour: A Bontoc dancing shield

Nonoy Tan · 22nd October 2014, 11:10 PM

Like I said earlier, the workmanship looks familiar to me. It was crafted to look old and used, and was made for no other purpose but for sale. Sorry to say this.

Nonoy

Sentrad · 24th November 2014, 08:29 PM

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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22nd October 2014, 11:10 PM	#1
Nonoy Tan Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 293	Like I said earlier, the workmanship looks familiar to me. It was crafted to look old and used, and was made for no other purpose but for sale. Sorry to say this. Nonoy

24th November 2014, 08:29 PM	#2
Sentrad Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 20	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