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Green River Shield, Upper Sepik River, West Sepik Province, Papua New GuineaThis shield was collected in the late 1960s in the Green River area. This river flows into the Upper Sepik River near the West Papuan border. It is mountainous rugged country difficult to access. The people are the Abau and these shields are carved from the wide buttress roots of a rainforest tree. They have no carved handle but are rope handles that would have been attached to the holes in the sides of the shield.
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