- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Australian shield made of wood. The handle is carved from the whole. The front is decorated, the inside is plain. The shield is covered with red and white pigment, some of which has been lost. Lines are lightly incised in most places, deeper in others.
- Long description
- The handle is carved from the whole. The front is decorated, the inside is plain. The front has grooved wavy lines running from top to bottom. The lines of hatching stretch across, cutting through the wavy lines from side to side, and at ends.The shield is covered with red and white pigment, some of which has been lost. Lines are lightly incised in most places, deeper in othere [AP] The shield is made of a heavy wood [MdeA]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1862
- Date collected
- By 1862
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Decorated, Process Incised, Process Carved, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 826 mm, Width: max 105 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.30.8 PR Cat other PR nos: 49 PR Cat other PR nos: 275
- Research and responses
The number written on the handwritten label for this object (275) matches the 1862 Catalogue of Arms. [AP 14/8/2015]
1884.30.8
Australian shield made of wood. The handle is carved from the whole. The front is decorated, the inside is plain. The shield is covered with red and white pigment, some of which has been lost. Lines are lightly incised in most places, deeper in others.
1884.30.8
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