- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Shield, carved from one piece of wood. It is oval in shape with a rounded front. The handle is carved into the underside. The surface of the wood has coated with black pigment.
- Long description
- Wood covered with black pigment on front. Handle carved from the whole [MdeA].
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1874
- Date collected
- ?By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Bark Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 491 mm, Width: max 258 mm, Height: max 53 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.30.20 PR Cat other PR nos: 60
- Research and responses
New information given by Danie Mellor, Australian National University, 15/01/02: Southern Queensland, could be anywhere from Thoorgine (Fraser Island) to Mackay/Rockhampton. [CF 15/1/2002]
1884.30.20
Shield, carved from one piece of wood. It is oval in shape with a rounded front. The handle is carved into the underside. The surface of the wood has coated with black pigment.
1884.30.20
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