Photo by Dr Corinna Erckenbrecht
Accession Number: 22099
Museum: Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne
Date Acquired:
Collector: Hermann Klaatsch (1863-1916)
Date Collected: c.1904
Where from: Aloomba
Description: L860 x W330mm; Boss: L120 x W80mm
Painted rainforest shield; includes some ricketts blue? Applied over the black outline in some places; Klaatsch has written details in pencil on painted surface; chunk out of side apears to be signs of use.
Klaatsch’s number 440; on the back there is a blue ‘C’ (Cologne). (Dr Corinna Erckenbrecht)
Similar to the shield collected from Stone River Station west of Ingham QE11826 with Ricketts Blue that is held in the Queensland Museum collection (Barnard 2013).
See: ‘Hermann Klaatsch’ authored by Corinna Erckenbrecht