Description (CMS Description)
Wooden shield with carved lines.Oval wooden shield, with integral handle, carved from a single piece of wood. Covered in red ?ochre pigment. The regular, carved parallel lines run along the length of both sides of the shield and are interrupted on the back by the carved out handle. On the front, there is a large hole which has been filled in with a dark substance, possibly resin or clay. On the front, there are also traces of a design consisting of white pigment dots.
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Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
(Bio) (Collector) Fredrick John Afford Bateman was a doctor in Alice Springs periodically between 1955 -1959, where he worked both in the hospital there and as a flying medic.Richard Bateman, the collector’s son, in correspondence with CUMAA adds: ‘It was a practice that all weapons, shields, knives were left outside the ward [at the Alice Spring Hospital] and were often unclaimed after the patients left the hospital.’
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Author: maa