Accession Number: QE1093
Museum: Queensland Museum
Date Acquired: 1916
Collector: Joseph Campbell (1856-1933)
Date Collected: 1914-1916
Where from: Kamma
Description:
Shield – FRONT: North Qld type shield. Light softwood. Kidney shaped. Decoration on front with white, yellow, red ochre, geometric designs, outlined with black. BACK: raised grip, no decoration, damage around edges. Collected from Kamma in 1916 and sold to QM (QE1006-QE4186). In 1910 a cotton plantation called Gossypium Park, was established south of Cairns at Wrights Creek, (near Kamma), which employed local Aboriginal labour. Five years later the plantation went into receivership and one of the cotton gins were sent to Yarrabah. In 1916, Joseph Campbell, former Director of Cotton Culture for Gossypium Park Estates Ltd., and supervisor of Aboriginal people on the plantation in 1914, sold a collection of artefacts including shields and baskets to the Queensland Museum for 30 pounds (Trish Barnard, Collection Manager, Aug. 2005).
See: ‘Joseph Campbell’ authored by Trish Barnard