Shield · Ethiopia, Amhara · ID: 3033721
sold
EUR 500
Size
D: 47,5 cm
D: 18.7 inch
Description
leather, wood, stretched with red velvet and decorated with punched metal sheet ornaments, back and handle stretched with brown ornamented leather, min. dam., traces of usage and abrasion, cracks;
the carrying of weapons was the pride of every self-respecting Amhara. A more or less magnificently decorated shield was a distinctive mark of every brave warrior. In the course of time they were transformed into purely decorative objects of imperial dignitaries.
Comparing literature
Zirngibl, Manfred A., Plaschke, Dieter, Afrikanische Schilde, München 1992, p. 70, ill. 60