An Aboriginal narrow shield New South Wales

An Aboriginal narrow shield

New South Wales, Australia

wood, with possum tooth relief carved wavy linear decoration with a line of lozenges with red ochre and with diaper filled lozenges, with a solid cut handle, 19th century,

82cm long.

Provenance

Arthur Allen, 1874 - 1967 and thence by descent.

cf. The David Petty collection, The Art of Eastern Australia, 2009, p..14-15 for a similar shield.