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Concept

Shields

Images

  • Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.
  • A Roman soldier throws a javelin over a dead body. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A doctor in the form of a shield with a smiling face holds hands with a mother and child; representing the protection conferred by the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Cure Law (Revised) in China in 2004. Colour lithograph, 2004.
  • Boer War: some African people demonstrate their wares to staff and patients from a military hospital, South Africa. Halftone after J. Waugh, 1900.
  • Sarawak: four Dayak men in a warfare ritual. Photograph.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Dr. Woodward's shield : history, science, and satire in Augustan England / Joseph M. Levine.

    Levine, Joseph M., 1933- | Date: [1977], ©1977
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A Roman soldier throws a javelin over a dead body. Drawing, c. 1793.

    | Date: 1793? | Reference: 31704i
    • Pictures

    A young Zulu warrior, wearing full wedding regalia, carrying a shield and several staves.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 535679i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
    • Ephemera

    Enolin Tooth Paste : "strong" or "mild" : 1/3d per tube : "the super paste" / A & E Carreras, perfumers.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1910?]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Boer War: some African people demonstrate their wares to staff and patients from a military hospital, South Africa. Halftone after J. Waugh, 1900.

    Waugh, J. J. | Date: 1900 | Reference: 23527i
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