Parade shield "tafa" · Ethiopia, Amhara · ID: 3047291
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Provenance
Italian CollectionSize
D: 47 cm
D: 18.5 inch
Description
leather, velvet, chiselled brass,
Initially used purely as military equipment, these shields became more and more elaborately decorated in the course of time and were transformed into purely decorative objects of imperial dignitaries.
Comparing literature
Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Dieter Plaschke, Afrikanische Schilde, München 1992, p. 70