‘There’s A Hole In My Shield...’A Textual Footnote

Datos Bibliográficos

ID17606264
AutoresJ V S Megaw (Flinders University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1994
Volumen38
Número1
Páginas35-37
Fecha de publicación1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAustralian Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0312-2417 • E-ISSN: 2470-0363
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03122417.1994.11681517
OpenAlexW1490306813
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas1

It is unfortunately a truism that by and large archaeologists make very poor use of available historical sources - unless, that is, they are historians by training. The purpose of this brief note is to draw attention to an overlooked reference in Joseph Banks' Endeavour journal which seems to lend further authenticity to the identification of a bark shield now in the Museum of Mankind (British Museum). The possible significance of the shield was first noted by McBryde (1970) and further commented on in Megaw (1972); most recently it has been discussed by the present writer in an essay on surviving pre- c. 1820 Aboriginal material from the Botany Bay-Port Jackson area published in the McCarthy commemorative papers (Megaw 1993, esp. cat. no. 6). The shield, recorded simply in the Museum's register as 'Captain Cook Acc.', can be compared closely with the drawing executed in 1771 for Banks by John Frederick Miller, particularly due to a hole in the shield located close to its carrying handle

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