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There is also much originality in the shield or hieleman of these people.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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To paint the body red seems also a custom of the natives in all parts that I have visited: but the most constant use of colours both white and red appears on the narrow shield or hieleman (see below) which is seldom to be found without some vestiges of both colours about the carving with which they are also ornamented.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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