Photo by Trish Barnard
Accession Number: A27377
Museum: South Australian Museum, Adelaide
Date Acquired: 21 April 2005
Collector: Norman Tindale (1900-1993)
Date Collected: c.1935
Where from: Mulgrave River
Description: L103 x W315mm
Turtles and Fish design.
This shield was made by Fred Mandraby, who actually made this turtle design shield held by the South Australian Museum Registry No. A27377”, NB Tindale Journal (AA 338/1/15/1-2), p.462. Fred was the son of Fred Mandinggarabai and wife Martha, who was a resident at the Yarrabah Mission near Cairns in the 1930s, and an important informant for anthropologists Ursula McConnel (1888-1957) and Norman Tindale (1900-93) who each independently collected data about the rainforest groups, Source: http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/aa346/AA346-09.htm#BAR-00054; There is also a photo of Fred Mandinggarabai, son of Jimmy Jupulum Mundingumpi (Yidinji man) holding this shield. (Barnard 2013)
See: http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/gallery/aacg/speakingland/story01/01_images/01_img01.htm
See: ‘Norman Tindale’ authored by Russell McGregor
http://www.jcucollections.org/?page_id=854
Contact: Professor John Carty, Head of Anthropology, South Australian Museum, North Terrace Adelaide, SA 5000 AUSTRALIA
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