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Australian Aboriginal shield

A hielaman or hielamon is an Australian Aboriginal shield. Traditionally such a shield was made from bark or wood, but in some parts of Australia such as Queensland a hielaman is any shield.

See also

Gweagal shield

References

Oxford Dictionary of English, 2nd Edition Revised
Aboriginal Words in Australian English, Hiroyuki Yokose, 2001.

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