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1874 catalogue entry:
45. to 48. TAMARANGS. Australia. Showing a gradual increase in breadth.
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Pitt Rivers Museum record:
| General Description: Australian parrying shield, made of wood, incised decoration. |
| Accession number: 1884.30.7 |
| Continent: Australia Country: Australia |
| Dimensions: L = 865 mm, W = 87 mm |
| When collected: ?Prior to 1874 |
| Other owners: Pitt Rivers sent this object to Bethnal Green Museum for display by ?early 1874. |
| Notes: Black book entry - Screen 2 5 Parrying shield 'Tamarang', shewing a gradual increase in width (48) Delivery Catalogue II entry - Shields from different localities. Wood shield, tamarang. Australia 48 Accession Book IV entry - Tamarang of light wood of similar shape and cross-section, with curved surface ornamented with heavily impressed and grooved strongly waved lines. N Australia [Drawing] Card Catalogue entry - ALF 48. North Australia. 48 = 5 black. Lenticular parrying stick tamarang, of light wood, cross section 'segment of circle' form; with curved surface ornamented with heavily impressed and grooved strongly waved lines. Original Pitt Rivers collection. Written on object - (in white ink) "Tamarang", N Australia PR 48. On printed label - 'Narrow shield Australia called tamarang' and another printed label '5' Other information - Displayed in Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums (V&A). The shield is decorated with incised lines. PR number: 48 |