Parade shield "tafa gašša" · Ethiopia, Amhara · ID: 3048272
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Provenance
French CollectionSize
D: 39,5 cm
D: 15.6 inch
Description
leather, velvet, chiselled brass sheet,
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 gašša” with the object ID 3048272 was last part of the auction 97th Auction at November 6, 2021 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 368.
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Comparing literature
Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Dieter Plaschke, Afrikanische Schilde, München 1992, p. 70