Wooden parrying-shield with flat front and angular back surface. The surface of the shield is decorated with incised zig-zags and chevrons in-filled with white pigment. [CW [OPS move] 8/8/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden parrying-shield with flat front and angular back surface. The surface of the shield is decorated with incised zig-zags and chevrons in-filled with white pigment. [CW [OPS move] 8/8/2016]
Long description: Wooden parrying-shield with flat front and angular back surface. The surface of the shield is decorated with incised zig-zags and chevrons in-filled with white pigment. There is a plant fibre loop attached to the handle which is carved from the whole. [CW [OPS move] 8/8/2016]
Geographical reference: Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia; Victoria
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, Material Plant Fibre, Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Painted
Dimensions: Width: max 130 mm, Length: max 929 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1931.78.5
Research and responses: 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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