Photo by Trish Barnard
Accession Number: QE1572
Museum: Queensland Museum
Date Acquired: 14 February 1900
Collector: Clement Lindley Wragge (1852-1922)
Date Collected: c.1900
Where from: Hinchinbrook Island
Description: Spear shield, ochred in red, yellow, black and white. Munsell colours : Front : 10 R 3/4 – dusky red, 10 YR 6/2 – Light Brownish grey, 10 YR 6/6 – brownish yellow, 5 YR 2.5/1 – black.
As a Queensland Government Meteorologist from 1887 to 1903 Clement Lindley Wragge had many opportunities to collect Aboriginal artefacts (Barnard 2013).
See: ‘Clement Wragge’ authored by Russell McGregor