Courtesy Pitt-Rivers Museum

Accession Number: 1900.55.165

Museum: Pitt-Rivers Museum

Date Acquired: 1900

Collector: Harry Stockdale?

Date Collected: 1890s

Where from: NQ near Cairns

Description: L979 x W360mm

Made before 1890s. Painted shield made of wood. Surface painted with yellow, black, white and red design. Handle carved into verso. Red ochre boss

Details including when collected:

Purchased from Norman H Hardy and presented by RF Wilkins in 1900. Illustrated in colour on page 64 of ‘Australia in Oxford’ edited by H. Morphy & Elizabeth Edwards (1988); Reproduced in colour on page 348 with a detail on p.349 in Aboriginal Art by H. Morphy (1998).

Contact: Jeremy Coote MA Status (Curator and Joint Head of Collections)

Email: objects.colls@prm.ox.ac.uk

Link: http://databases.prm.ox.ac.uk/fmi/webd/objects_online