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28th September 2015, 08:14 AM | #2 |
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Look at this one. Click on the image then the + and you will see the same deep cut decoration lines as in my examples. My examples show evidence of having been painted at some time. Nice to have a clan name. Worrumbi.
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Correction "Worrumbi" is not a clan name. It is the name for the largest shields used in the Mendi valley. Here is an extract about contact in the Mendi valley 1954. Taken from the link which is extremely informative but very long. Hence the extract.
INTRODUCTORY VOTE:- The following; "thesis is based on field-work carried out in three periods: June to December, 1954; July, 1955 to. October, 1956; and July to -becember, 1958. The first two visits were assisted by research grants from the University of Sydney, and the third was financed by the W.M. Strong Fellowship, which I held for 1957 and 1958. Field-work-in this area presented certain difficulties. When I arrived in Mendi in 1954, the government - station (the first in the Southern Highlands District) had benn open for only four years, and the whole . District was a "restricted,- area". The natives were still hostile, and while. I was there, government patrols were ,attacked twice, whin six' miles of the station. Travelling without an armed escort was presumed dangerous for Europeans, and our movements were severely restricted. I myself was given more latitude than were most Europeans who were not Native Affairs Officers, , but, until my, hird visit in 1958, I was not allowed more than 10 miles north of Mendi station, nor could I enter the neighbouring Lai Valley. http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb21855464/_1.pdf |
10th October 2015, 10:51 AM | #4 |
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Not over till the fat lady sings!
She sings loudly now.
I have a copy of a journal. The art of war: Wola shield designs Paul Sillitoe University of Manchester Journ. Royal Anthropol. Inst. (MAN) 15 No. 3, 1980 I post the the most relevant pages. Here this type of shield is spelt "watumbiy" and I think the information will help us understand more what we see in this thread, unpainted but displaying heavy use. |
15th September 2016, 05:31 PM | #5 |
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Adding to the controversy as too how recent these shields are, or are not. Look at the shield on the wall in the background of this informative video.
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12th October 2016, 05:20 PM | #6 |
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Just wanted to add this pic of the new shield with the one on the wall, as the one in the back ground featured in the Australian Museum video.
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8th April 2018, 10:58 AM | #7 |
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This one in Barcelona.
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