An Aborigine wunda shield Western Australia wood

An Aborigine wunda shield

Western Australia

wood, with grooved zig-zag decoration and red and white ochre, the reverse with an integral handle and with grooved linear decoration and ochre, 19th century,

65cm long.

Provenance

Purchased from the family of Henry Hubert, a road engineer working in the Kalgoorie and Northern Goldfields area prior to WWI.