Shield ·  Sudan, Fundj · ID: 3039958

Description

wood, leather, of oval form, wooden stick for support on the back, which is to be seen as a ridge in front, min. dam., small missing parts, traces of usage and abrasion;
even in earlier travel journals, pointed oval shields such as these were described as “Nubian shields”. Made out of the thick hide from the back of antelope, buffalo or giraffe, they were generally ascribed to the peoples of the upper Nile such as the still little-known Fundj and Nilotic tribes between the Blue and White Nile.

The object Shield with the object ID 3039958 was last part of the auction 82nd Tribal Art Auction at February 27, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 251 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.

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Comparing literature

Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Dieter Plaschke, Afrikanische Schilde, München 1992, p. 49, ill. 30