Photo by Trish Barnard

Accession Number: E013434

Museum: Australian Museum

Date Acquired: 24/03/1905

Collector: Walter Edmund Roth

Date Collected: 1898

Where from: Cairns

Description: L980 x W350mm

Collected from Cairns in 1898. Roth identified wood as Rhodomyrtus macrocarpa. Red, black and white natural pigments with red ochre on back of shield. Spear point holes in surface.

See contemporary version made by Michael Boiyool Anning (1955-) on display at Cairns Convention Centre (Barnard 2014). 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

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

Phone: (02) 9320 6089

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Email: Rebecca.fisher@austmus.gov.au