H1121 Shield

Photo by Trish Barnard

Photo by Trish Barnard

Accession Number: H1121

Museum: Macleay Museum

Date Acquired: c.1885

Collector: John Archibald Boyd (1846-1926)

Date Collected: c.1885

Where from: Herbert River

Description: L830 x W345mm

Figtree wood with natural ochre pigments. Collected by John Archibald Boyd (1846-1926) who collected specimens for the Australian Museum and William Macleay. He lived in Fiji 1865-82 and then on a sugar plantation at Ingham, Queensland.

Nywaigi people, Herbert River, Queensland.

See: ‘John Archibald Boyd’ authored by Dr Rosita Henry

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