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18th October 2014, 11:19 PM
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Hi Udo,
Does it have a strong smell of smoke? The workmanship leads me to suspect that it was made by the Ifugao. Nonoy |
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22nd October 2014, 10:12 PM
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it had a strong smell when I bought it and 2000 and still have a smell of smoke, the same smell I register when I enter the room with my Ifugao basketry. Indeed the workmanship seems not have the subtle finesse of Bontoc shields. Thanks for the comment! Udo |
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22nd October 2014, 11:10 PM
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Like I said earlier, the workmanship looks familiar to me. It was crafted to look old and used, and was made for no other purpose but for sale. Sorry to say this.
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24th November 2014, 08:29 PM
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Hi Nonoy,
thank you very much for your comment! I took me some time to follow the tracks of this shield. It has been collected in the beginning of the sixties last century in the cordillera by the German ethnologist Karl Pfadenauer (Author of "Ethnologie der marginalen Stämme", Munich 1996) and it stays with him until 1984, when I bought it. He was a heavy smoker and everything in his flat had a pipe smell. So I had a good feeling, but ...you are right, even before WW II objects had been produced for dealers. Thanks again Udo |
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