Shield
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1839 to 1840
name: label: Collector
content: Horatio Hale
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: LONG, NARROW, CONVEX, LEAF-SHAPED WOODEN SHIELD W/ RED OCHER PAINTED DESIGNS ON THE FRONT AND BACK. THERE ARE TWO HOLES WHERE A HANDLE WAS ONCE ATTACHED ON THE BACK. THE DECORATION ON EXTERIOR CONSISTS OF ONE VERTICAL LINE DOWN AND TWO HORIZONTAL PARALLEL LINES ACROSS THE CENTER OF THE SHIELD. PUBLICATION: AN ILLUS. OF THE SHIELD APPEARS IN THE "NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION,"1838-1842, VOL. II, P. 238, http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21946740. SEE ALSO P. 192, http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21946694 . See in the "Narative of the United States Exploring Expedition, Vol. II, Chapter 8, beginning on p. 245, http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21946747 where a trip by Horatio Hale and Alfred Agate to the Hunter River is reported. This object therefore was presumably collected by Horatio Hale.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 542 as ""Koreil", a wooden shield from Hunters river New South Wales."
label: Notes
content: See similar shield Accession # 2011.137 in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/89199/ .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hunter River, New South Wales, Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Aboriginal Australian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5639-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 87.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 30.6 cm