Context (Related Documents)
Duplicate card [undated] stored under 'Ceremonial tablets & shields' in the workroom notes the same physical description, reference and donor details, but is filed as No. 24' and adds in pencil, 'Over case 33'.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Amendments / updates)
Original catalogue card annotated '7' in the top right corner next to a small circular red sticker.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Amendments / updates)
Original catalogue card with pencil annotations read 'No.36 on display above wall cases' / 'No.36 on dislay'.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Acquisition Details)
Purchased by Frederick Green, Honorary Keeper of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum (1908-1949) from the Red House Sale 1904 and donated to the Museum
Event Date 1904
Author: rachel hand

Context (Display)
The "No. 24" display reference may be related to the display listed in the Annual Report for 1931 (1932: 1) as "Dr A. C. Haddon, Honorary Keeper of the New Guinea collections reports, 'The arrangement of the specimens from New Guinea in the wall case in the Andrews Gallery has been completed as far as possible. The Curator secured the efficient services if Miss A. Nicole Smith to assist me in cleaning, arranging and cataloguing the large collection of specimens from Papua in the attic. The specimens are now available for study' a certain number of them may be considered as duplicated to be exchanged'.

This process continued in 1933 (cf Annual Report 1934:1) ' Dr A.C Haddon, Honorary Keeper of the New Guinea Collections, reports that in the Lent Term the final rearrangement of the cases containing the New Guinea collections was begun. The former cultural and geographical sequence has been retained. The specimens have been labelled and a duplicate card index has been put on the shelf in the gallery for the use of students. A map has been mounted over one of the cases and has already proved invaluable… The curator kindly provided a new case for the head shrine from Goaribari Island throughout the revision. The Curator's assistant and his artistic sense especially have been most valuable. In the Easter term the Torres Strait collection was dealt with in a similar manner.
In the meantime Dr Haddon has written handbooks which not only deal with the exhibited specimens of a particular culture with reference to the technical methods employed but indicate the culture as a whole and its relation with other cultures in New Guinea. They are being provided with photographs and maps and will hang by the cases to which they refer. During the Michaelmas term the numerous specimens in the attic were given numbers. The index cards of all the collections from New Guinea are now in the process of completion".
Event Date 1932
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Description (CMS Description)
Leaf shaped shield with long flat stem, the face carved with a human mark and painted red black and white.
Event Date 3/9/2014
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card E 1904.454 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'E. Melanesia. New Guinea/ Papuan Gulf./1904.454. Shield/Donor. F.W. Green, M.A./R. 1904 [4 crossed out and changed to '5' with black ballpoint].1028.'
[Later addition handwritten in black ballpoint:] 'L.3'2"/Leaf shaped with long flat stem,/the face carved with a human mark/and painted red black and white./From Red House Sale 1904'.
[Later addition handwritten in pencil:] 'No 36 display/above wall cases/No.36 on display'. Red circular sticker adheres to top right corner of catalogue card.
Event Date 3/9/2014
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Hohao. Ancestral board.
Event Date 16/4/2024
Author: rachel hand

Context (Amendments / updates)
This is a hohao (also known regionally as a gope) ancestral board not a shield
Event Date 16/4/2024
Author: rachel hand