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Australian Aboriginal shield.

Photographed at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) on 21-Feb-06.

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Shield (Darkur). North Queensland. Covering of softwood, with a large flat ovate shape. Used with the sword, number 20. The meaning of the painted decoration is now lost.

Collected before 1934. Wrightson collection.

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