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Parrying shield

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
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Cultural attribution
First Australians
Object type
Schild
Dimensions
L 91,5 cm / B 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
LM: 91976

Provenance and sources

when
late 19th century.
where
Victoria
who
uns nicht bekannt - Role not clarified

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.

when
before 1917
where
Deutschland
who
Waldthausen, Emma Caroline Helene von - Owners

when
1917
where
Stuttgart
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).

when
15.12.1971
where
Stuttgart
who
Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners
Description
JGU Mainz received object in exchange with Linden-Museum.

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