This is one of the great shields from the Kalam people who live up at the headwaters of the Simbai River in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. The design is a stylized figure in the classic checkerboard pattern inside a twin-lobed marked by two parallel raised ridges. This example is pre-contact, stone carved and is very rare to have the remains of white pigments still intact. There are at least two holes on the front made by arrows. The shield is carved from a dense hardwood, is 41 ½" in height. sold