Context (Amendments / updates)
Transcribed from register as object was not included on the database. Register reads for 1886.67.1-36 reads ' Nine spears and darts (one with stone and two with bone points), thirteen spear throwers of various forms, five boomerangs, four clubs, four shields, one bamboo horn'. (Bio) Prof Bevan

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
'Oval shield, D-shaped in section, the handle cut from the solid, the face carved with a curved X-shape, the ends reminicent of boomerangs. R.Hand 07/06/2007'
Event Date 07/06/2007
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card for 1886.67.32-35 notes four shields. [Added later in black in ink] No. 67 (32) ornamented with incised patterns coloured black. [Added later in pencil] 'Brunel was working in Queenland, among other places!)' Small sketch on card
Event Date 13/8/2010
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card is annotated in red ink with the numbers 32-35, but only No.32 (presumably this shield) is signed and dated '6.3.21'
Event Date 13/8/2010
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card 2 for E 1886.67.32-35 reads [handwritten in blue ink:] ‘ Australia. 1886-67 (32-35). Shields, four.’; [later addition handwritten in pencil:] ‘No locality of origin recorded’.
Event Date 5/11/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 2 for E 1886.67.32-35 reads [handwritten in blue ink:] ‘H.M. Brunel Esq R. 1886-67(32-35).’; [later addition handwritten in pencil:] ‘ No 32 is exhibited as serial No 17 over No. 4show case. See Z 29057 + Z 29058 + 29059’. Red circular sticker lower right corner of catalogue card.
Event Date 5/11/2012
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card 1 for E 1886.67.32-35 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ‘E. Australia. 1886.67, (32-35). Four shields.’; [later addition handwritten in black ink:] ‘No 67 (32) Ornamented with incised pattern coloured black.’; [later addition handwritten in pencil:] ‘Locality of origin not recorded, might be North Queensland’.; [later addition handwritten in pencil:] ‘Brunel was working in Queensland, (among other places!)’. Sketch of no. 32 with measurements; L = 6 ¾”, W = 8 ½”.
Event Date 5/11/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 for E 1886.67.32-35 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ‘D. * H.M. Brunel, Esq. AR. 1886.67, (32-35).’ The Annual Report for 1886, p.3 ‘In those cases in which the objects have not been presented directly, but have been purchased with money subscribed to the Museum Accession Fund, an asterisk is prefixed to the name of the donor.’
[Later addition handwritten in red ink:] ‘32. M[illegible] 6.3.21
33.
34.
35.’;
[later addition handwritten in pencil:] ‘See Z 29057 + Z 29058 + 29059’. Red circular sticker lower right corner of catalogue card.


Event Date 5/11/2012
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (Labels & Markings)
The object number is written on the reverse in white ink. below it is written 'no locality'. O.I.25.6 is written in white ink at one end of the front of the shield. There is a brown paper label at the opposite end of the front of the shield, which reads, in typed script: 'Nine spears and darts (one with stone and two with bone points), thirteen spear throwers of various forms, five boomerangs, four clubs, four shields, one bamboo horn, Australia. *H.M. Brunel, Esq., London. [handwritten:] 1866.'
Event Date 15/12/2022
Author: Flo Sutton

Description (Physical description)
'Oval shield, D-shaped in section, the handle cut from the solid, the face carved with a curved X-shape, the ends reminiscent of boomerangs. '17' is written twice in chalk on the reverse.
Event Date 15/12/2022
Author: Flo Sutton