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1931.78.14

Shield with grip cut out of the body.

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1931.78.14

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Collection type
Object
Description
Shield with grip cut out of the body.
Long description
Shield of light wood, with parallel sides and squared ends; grip cut from the solid; painted in red and white. Decorated with narrow horizontal white stripes on a red background.
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source James Thomas Hooper
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1931
Date collected
By 1931
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1931
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Painted
Dimensions
Length x Width: max 755 x 198 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1931.78.14
Research and responses

Information from Danie Mellor, Australian National University, 16/01/02: possibly Southern Queensland, around Moreton Bay up to Fraser Island area. [CF 16/1/2002]

Related Documents File [James Thomas Hooper, Catalogue of Ethnographical Material] - The museum has a photocopy of Hooper's accession and dispersal records, which are bound as two volumes and kept in a separate box file. Items are arranged according to Hooper's own numbering system [RTS 21/11/2003].

Search terms: Weapon, Shield

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