A Large Parrying Shield
A Large Parrying ShieldEstimate $8,000 – $12,000
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
carved hardwood, red and white natural earth pigments
LENGTH: 92CM
Provenance:
Private collection, UK
Private collection
Cf. Graham Jenkin, Conquest of the Ngarrindjeri, Adelaide: Rigby, 1979, p.32., p.97, p.144, for a portrait of an unidentified Ngarrindjeri man after the founding of Port McLeay Mission, holding a similar shield. See also Frederic D. McCarthy, Australian Aboriginal Decorative Art, Sydney: Australian Museum, 1962, p.16, fig.4, for a similar example from the Lower Murray, South Australia