Shield

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Description

animal skin, brown patina, circular form with punched straight lines and circular raisings, completely decorated with ornamental incisions, large handle on the rear, rep. (crack), traces of usage;
the large handles were already borrowed in the distant past from the double-handled Islamic round shields. The shields in use today invariably have only a single grip centered in the middle, so that it is possible to push the shield up the arm almost to the shoulder.

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Comparing literature

Zirngibl, Manfred A., Plaschke, Dieter, Afrikanische Schilde, München 1992, p. 69

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