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Description: | white and red pigment; zigzag design CULT Australian aboriginal: Ngarluma probably 19th century Roebourne and vicinity, inland for about seventy miles, Western Australia Shields can be used during combat to protect against spears, clubs and boomerangs. These shields have been decorated with red and cream ochre. The decoration may be designed to protect the bearer or it might have some other symbolic power. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SPINE_CLEMENT : WEAPON : PARRYING : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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