KALINGA SHIELD

KALINGA SHIELD

Philippines

127 cm. long

** Provenance
The shield retains a fragment of an old printed and inscribed label:" leg.Dr. Mey [er?]". This could possibly be Hans Heinrich Josef Meyer (1858-1929) of the wealthy Leipzig publishing family, in which case it is likely to have been collected during his world tour of 1882. Part of the inscription on the label reads: "schild der Guina..." and during his trip Meyer collected amongst the Guinanen (the former name for the Kalinga); Many of the objects collected by Hans Meyer are now in the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig.