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Originally Posted by asomotif
100 % Dayak, no doubts at all.
maybe a mix up by the museum ?
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I, too, have seen mislabeled museum pieces. But The description posted does not say it is an Aceh shield. It says
'Shield of the Aceh fighter . . . . .
Quite possibly the original quote could have been wrong about the heritage of the "Aceh fighter" or the guy could have carried a dayak shield.
I was visiting a museum with some incredible Oceanic art. PNG. With one wonderful Dayak panel. An expert on Oceanic art was describing some of the pieces. I know he was an expert because he had a little pony tail
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I asked him what he knew about the Dayak and he said they were one of the toughest tribes that ever lived in Sumatra.
I think that we must beware what I call the "Superman Effect." Just because a person or a museum is expert in some things, don't take everything they say about
everything as being the gospel truth. They can be, and are sometimes wrong.
In one of the lesser Kurosawa movies (Don't remember which), one of the characters was using a Chinese
jian. I thought it was a
ken, but one of the other Japanese characters began giving him a hard time about using a Chinese sword.
He said that he liked his Chinese sword. Maybe he had killed the Chinese guy and took his sword. Maybe he traded something for it. Could have happened with the Aceh fighter and a Dayak. The shield has the bars that would indicate a battle shield so it would be appropriate for a fighter.