Photo by Trish Barnard

Accession Number: E013430

Museum: Australian Museum

Date Acquired: 24/03/1905

Collector: Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933)

Date Collected: c.1897

Where from: Clump Point

Description: L920 x W420mm

Walter Edmund Roth was appointed as a Protector of Aborigines in 1898 and had opportunity to collect artefacts. See: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/roth-walter-edmund-8280

Roth stated that these kidney shaped shields were not made much by 1898, and if so, were only made by very old men. Red, yellow, black and white natural pigments.

Walter Roth sold his collection of nearly 2000 North Queensland artefacts to the Australian Museum in 1905 for £450 (Barnard 2014).

See: ‘Walter Edmund Roth’ authored by Maureen Fuary

http://www.jcucollections.org/?page_id=71

Contact: Rebecca Fisher, Collections Officer, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010 AUSTRALIA

Phone: (02) 9320 6089

International: +612 9320 6089

Email: Rebecca.fisher@austmus.gov.au