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 WITH TRACES OF RED OCHER PAINTED DESIGNS ON THE FRONT & BACK. THERE IS A HANDLE ATTACHED TO THE CENTER OF THE BACK OF THE SHIELD. THE SHIELD HAS A LONG NARROW CRACK RUNNING FROM THE TOP LEFT HAND SIDE TO THE CENTER NEAR THE HANDLE. PUBLICATION: AN ILLUS. 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. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 543 as ""Koreil", a wooden shield from Hunters river New South Wales."
label: Notes
content: On p. 20 of National Institute for the Promotion of Science, Washington, D.C. A Popular Catalogue of the Extraordinary Curiosities In the National Institute, Arranged In the Building Belonging to the Patent Office. Washington: A. Hunter, 1855, Peale # 543 is identified as "Shield made of wood from Hunter's River, made of the bark of the gum tree; it is called Hiclemara." Note: "Hiclemara" is probably a mistranscription of the Australian English word for shield "hieleman", derived from the Sydney Aboriginal word yilimung/eleemong. (See p. 47 in Walsh, Michael. 1993. Language and culture in aboriginal Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. See also entry on Heilaman, in Morris, Edward Ellis. 1898. Austral English: a dictionary of Australian words, phrases and usages, with those Aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language. London: Macmillan.. http://www.aolib.com/reader_27977_220.htm).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 May 2023
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5640-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 88.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 29.8 cm