shield
- Museum number
- Oc1933,0403.5
- Description
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Curved shield of wood, with a central raised boss. Front painted with a design in faded white, red and yellow pigments outlined in black. Reverse is coloured red and has a loop handle cut from the solid.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early) (before about 1905)
- Dimensions
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Height: 90 centimetres
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Width: 34 centimetres
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Depth: 7.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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1933 register:
From North Queensland, Australia]
[?Malgrave, Cairns District] the square brackets denote that it was the opinion of the registrar
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This object was one of a larger collection which the donor, Miss F M Walker, described as having been collected by her brother in north Queensland some ‘thirty years ago’. Without any direct information from Miss Walker’s brother, the registrar in 1933 recorded his opinion that the collection came from ‘?Malgrave, Cairns District’. It appears Malgrave was a misspelling of the locality Mulgrave, near Cairns.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2015-2016 27 Nov-28 Mar, Canberra, National Museum of Australia, Encounters
- Acquisition date
- 1933
- Acquisition notes
- Register information: 'Collected by donor's brother 30 years ago.'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1933,0403.5