Current Pitt Rivers Museum Information About the Shields Displayed in Bethnal Green Museum

 

This is about shields displayed in 1874 on Screen 2 at Bethnal Green Museum. Each shield is described on a separate page, and the information is presented in the same way in which it is stored on the Museum's database. It is a good example of the type of information now available to visiting researchers at the Pitt Rivers Museum. It includes information available in 1874, plus the results of subsequent research and other work on the shields.

All of the shields described here were donated by Lieutenant-General Pitt Rivers, and formed part of the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, donated in 1884.


How to read the information
Australian Heileman or shield
Parrying sticks and shields, Africa
Parrying shields of double antelopes' horns, India
Long narrow shields from the Asiatic Isles


 

The entry for each object starts with the description and number given in the 1874 catalogue, followed by the currently available Pitt Rivers Museum information.

For all objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, information is stored on a computer database. The information for one object is stored in one record, each record being divided into the following fields:


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