Photo by Professor Rosita Henry
Accession Number: Oc.7696
Museum: British Museum
Date Acquired: 1872
Collector: John Ewen Davidson (1841-1923)
Date Collected: c.1872
Where from: Rockingham Bay (Cardwell)
Description: L998 x W452mm
Painted shield made of an oval piece of fig wood. Surface painted in ochres and white pipe clay. Handle carved into verso.
Donated by John Ewen Davidson, who was a Scottish immigrant who is credited with pioneering the sugar industry in north Queensland (Barnard 2014).
See: ‘John Ewen Davidson’ authored by Trish Barnard