DUSUN SHIELD
Sabah, Malaysia
78 cm. diameter
Cf. Evans, I.H.N., "Among Primitive Peoples in Borneo", London, 1922, p.192, for a photograph of “a Dusun man of Tambatuan in war dress”, holding a similar shield, and Van Zonneveld, A.G., "Traditional Weapons of the Indonesian Archipelago', Leiden, 2001, p.122, fig.483, for a shield attributed to the Sundayak, a sub-group of the Dusun.
Provenienz
Sotheby’s, New York, 29 April 1983, lot 69
Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs