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Description: | MURRAY RIVER
Wooden shield of ovate form with rectangular spurs above and below. The face of the shield is pierced with two holes, through which a U shaped wooden handle has been fitted. Between the two ends of the handle a vertical strip is painted with red ochre paint, outside of the stripe and the spurs. The entire surface is decorated with a series of horizontal zig zag grooves. Remnants of a beige ochre paint remain in these grooves.
caption: Frontal view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 8.276
caption: Rear view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 8.276 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | wood paint shields (weapons: accessories) War- and Peace-making | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-60659 | Go to resource |
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