Accession Number: Oc.1933.0403.9
Museum: British Museum
Date Acquired: 1933
Collector: Derwent Vallance (1875-1960)
Date Collected: c.1903
Where from: Mulgrave
Description: L100 x W375mm
Painted shield made of wood. Handle cut from the solid. Donated by collector’s sister, Florence Walker – see the doc 907.
Painted shield with Rickett’s blue, introduced to local Aboriginal people by European settlers (Henry 2012).
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
Email: gsculthorpe@britishmuseum.org