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.
The object Parade shield “tafa” with the object ID 3047291 was last part of the auction 95th Tribal Art Auction at October 24, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 315.
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Comparing literature
Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Dieter Plaschke, Afrikanische Schilde, München 1992, p. 70