Photo by Dr Rosita Henry
Accession Number: Oc.1933.0403.3
Museum: British Museum
Date Acquired: 1933
Collector: Derwent Vallance (1875-1960)
Date Collected: c.1903
Where from:
Description: L880 x W280mm
Painted shield made of wood, with a handle cut from the solid. Donated by collector’s sister, Florence Walker – see the doc 907.
Design represents ‘canoes’ – see another historical version QE1089 and QE1150 in the Queensland Museum and Michael Boiyool Annings contemporary version of this Yidinji shield design which is held in the Queensland Art Gallery collection ‘Bark canoes’ 2004.163 (Barnard 2014).
See: ‘Derwent Vallance’ authored by Dr Rosita Henry
http://www.jcucollections.org/?page_id=1108
Contact: Dr Gaye Sculthorpe, Curator of Oceania
British Museum, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG, UK
Phone: +44 20 7323 8035