NIAS BATTLE TUBE

Type: Body Armor
Classification: Weapons & Armor
Name: NIAS BATTLE TUBE
Indigenous name: BARO
Function: Defenses and protect
Region: Insular South-East Asia
Culture: NIAS
Origin: NIAS, NIAS Island, Indonesia
Time period: ---
Materials: Bark, rattan and fibers (palm spikes)

Dimension: 62 cm (length)
Inventory number: 985-1

Collection:
National Museum of Ethnology
(Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde)
Steenstraat 1, Leiden 2300 AE, The Netherlands

Publications about the object:

Traditional weapons of the Indonesian Archipelago, Endang Sri Hardiati & Pieter ter Preferred (red), Indonesia - The discovery of the past, KIT Publishers, Amsterdam 2005