Parrying shield
Notes from a research visit by Gaye Sculthorpe, Curator of Oceanic Collections at the British Museum, 8-9/07/2015:
33/1953/27b – shield, northwestern Australia, found in large region. Decorated with red and white ochre, reverse side is red with ochre and vertical fluting parallel lines, front has a parallel zigzag pattern. Manchester University Museum comparison #527 in Lewis, 1977.
33/1953/27b – shield, northwestern Australia, found in large region. Decorated with red and white ochre, reverse side is red with ochre and vertical fluting parallel lines, front has a parallel zigzag pattern. Manchester University Museum comparison #527 in Lewis, 1977.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 33/1953/27b
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Material
- pigment
- Common Name
- parrying shield
- Simple Name
- shield
- Production County
- north west
- Production Country
- Australia
