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Acehnese Shield
Also titled Schild van een Atjeeër
before 1877
- Medium
- riet, paper, wood (plant material), paint (coating)
- Classification
- shield
- Dimensions
- depth 5.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of A.C., Baron Snouckaert van Schauburg, The Hague
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
This shield resembles those of the Dayak from Borneo. However, it was seized in Aceh (Sumatra). This province fiercely resisted the expansion of the Dutch colonial regime. The label on the shield attests coolly to this dramatic struggle: ‘Shield of the Acehnese, who in Dec. 1876 killed 1st Lieutenant Regensburg in the banteng of Lembu. Acehnese also dead.’ The Aceh War (1873-1914) claimed more than 100,000 lives.
