- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden shield, lozenge shaped in section and gradually tapering to a point at each end.
- Long description
- Wooden shield, lozenge shaped in section, largest in the middle, and gradually tapering to a point to each end. The front is more sharply keeled than the back. A handle is cut from the solid. The front is carved with lines in a geometric zigzag pattern and filled with white coloured pigment. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 06/08/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Southeastern Australia Victoria New South Wales
- Date / Period
- Date made: On or before 1864
- Date collected
- ?On or before 1864
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 10/02/1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 731 mm, Width: max 120 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.1.1602
- Research and responses
Confirmed as a Southeastern Australian object by members of the La Perouse community and AIATSIS delegation during a visit in April 2024.
- Associated publications
- Illustrated in black and white as figure 74 on page 56 of Australia in Oxford, eds. Howard Morphy and Elizabeth Edwards (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Monograph 4, 1988).
1886.1.1602
Wooden shield, lozenge shaped in section and gradually tapering to a point at each end.
1886.1.1602
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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