Alcheringa Images

Shield

A narrow wooden shield decorated with simple carved ornamentation.

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Details

Collector/creator
Fabian Bellingshausen
Time collected
1820
Location collected
Port Jackson, Australia
Transfer history
Admiralty Museum, Saint Petersburg, 1822 > >
Current museum
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
Time deposited to current museum
1828
Current museum number
736-187
Material
Wood
Measurements
Length 88 cm, maximum width 12 cm, thickness 6 cm
Source/publication/study
Belkov 2015