Shield · Sudan, Fundj · ID: 3039958
sold
EUR 500
Size
H: 114 cm
H: 44.9 inch
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.
Comparing literature
Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Dieter Plaschke, Afrikanische Schilde, München 1992, p. 49, ill. 30