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ABOUT THE RAINFOREST ABORIGINAL SHIELDS
Painted
Designs on Rainforest Aboriginal Shields from North Queensland:
An Analysis of Correlations between Design Styles and Geographical
Distribution, by Ranna-Lesley Lachlan [formerly
Hale], James Cook University, Townsville. 1989.
Rainforest
Aboriginal shields were collected from throughout the North
Queensland rainforest during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Many of the major
museums in Australia hold a number of these fascinating
artefacts in their collections.
![copyright drawings - Ranna Lachlan [Hale], 1989.](images/copyright-rlthesis-shields.gif)
DISCLAIMER
#1 & ATTRIBUTION
The two
illustrations above provide examples of two typical design
symmetries found in the painted designs on rainforest Aboriginal
shields. Generic examples of such symmetries are illustrated
below
(Lachlan,
R., 1989). A contemporary
rainforest Aboriginal shield created by Mr
R. Butler (click
here for illustration) bears
a beautiful example of one of these design symmetries
(Lachlan,
R., 2003).
In fact, six discrete design symmetries were identified by
Dr Lachlan during her research (Lachlan,
R., 1986-89)
on the rainforest
shields.
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CURATORIAL:
Although she is a full
time contemporary artist in the
U.S.A. and Australia, Dr Lachlan provides advice and liaison
on Australian anthropology and material culture, the focus
of her first graduate qualification, and on the arts of India
and East Asia which were the focus of her PhD.
Other
writings by Dr Ranna-Lesley Lachlan
(formerly Hale)
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Winchester
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