In Indo art, our first project was to design a Irian Jaya Shield. We looked at pictures of the shields made by the asmat tribe, and tried do design a shield like theirs.
Our shields had to be symmetrical, either horizontally or vertically. It also has to include at least one animal (that 'protects' the user from wounds). There has to be some patterns on the side of the shields for decoration. We can use only four colours: black, white, yellow and red.
On my shield, I drew two sea angels, but they turned out to be like dragonflies... I coloured the 'dragonflies' white. I also drew S shaped patterns around the shield, and two 'streames of water' on the sides, but they didn't look like water at all... My background is black, and I rarely used red.
When I was researching about the asthmat people, I found out that the Asthmat were one of the best at wood carving around the Pacific. Before Captain James Cook arrived, the Asthmat people were hunters and cannibals. Some European explorers bought the Asthmat shields and other artifacts back to Europe, where a lot of famous aritists took interest in them. Right now, some Asthmat people even recieve better education than people in Indonesia and even Europeans.
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