Early Asmat War Shield from West Papua

An early war shield, Asmat, Central Asmat, West Papua.…
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An early war shield, Asmat, Central Asmat, West Papua. Provenance: Raymond Charles Williams. This very early Asmat shield, was obtained by Raymond Charles Williams who was in the Royal Australian engineers Corp and stationed on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait during World War II. He brought this shield back with him when he returned, how the shield got to the Torres Strait is unknown, but there was regular trade between the mainland of New Guinea and the Torres Strait. During World War II the Australian army sent Donald Thomson, the famous anthropologist that had worked in Arnhem Land, to the south Coast of West Papua to scout for Japanese soldiers, who brought artefacts back from the Asmat which are now in the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne. 186 x 39 cm

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