A Solomon Islands parrying shield qauata

A Solomon Islands parrying shield qauata

Melanesia

with a curved blade carved a medial ridge issuing from a W symbol and terminating in an outline of a frigate birds beak, the tapering shaft with a knopped tip,

138cm long.

Provenance

Wilfred Fowler, District Officer on Ysabel (Santa Isabel), Solomon Islands in 1929 - 1931 and author of This Island's Mine, 1959, an autobiographical account of his time on the island.