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Parrying shield

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An elongated dark wood parrying shield, wedge-shaped with tapered ends, the handle carved from solid wood, a wavy pattern incised on the front, a red-coloured groove in the centre of the front opposite the handle / The parrying shield was made by an unknown carver, probably in Victoria or south-eastern Australia in general, in the 19th century and brought to Europe around 1900.

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Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
First Australians
Object type
Schild
Dimensions
L 91.5 cm / W 12 cm
Material/Technique
wood (plant material)
carved
Object genre
weapon
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 1988
Other number(s)
1988 (Old inventory number)
LM: 91976 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    when
    late 19th century.
    where
    Victoria
    Australien
    who
    uns nicht bekannt - Role not clarified
  • Change of physical control:
    Purchase
    when
    before 1900
    where
    Australien
    who
    Ethnografika-Händler*innen - Owners
    Description
    Presumably acquired by the ethnographic dealers Jane Catharine Tost (1817-1889) and her daughter Ada Jane Rohu (1848-1928), who were known far beyond Australia.
  • Change of physical control:
    Purchase
    when
    before 1917
    where
    Deutschland
    who
    Waldthausen, Emma Caroline Helene von - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    when
    1917
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Waldthausen, Emma Caroline Helene von - Donors
    Description
    Emma Waldthausen donated 1,100 objects to the Linden Museum (May and June 1917 and 8 September 1919) and 377 objects to the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Weimar (1917 and 1918).
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners
    Description
    JGU Mainz received object in exchange with Linden-Museum.

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED

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