The shield is oblong, narrow, one-sidedly convex, the upper and lower ends are triangular. On the reverse side, in the center, a longitudinal handle is cut flush. It is covered with grooves on both sides. There are traces of paint on the outer surface. Light wood.
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Details
- Collector/creator
- Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay
- Time collected
- Before 1886
- Location collected
- Australia
- Transfer history
- Russian Geographical Society, Saint Petersburg > >
- Current museum
- Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
- Time deposited to current museum
- 1891
- Current museum number
- 402-285
- Material
- Wood
- Measurements
- Length 63 cm, width 13.5 cm, thickness 5.5 cm
- Source/publication/study
- Miklukho-Maklai 1999