Shield · Tanzania, Kerewe · ID: 3053568
Starting price
EUR 2,000
Estimated price
EUR 3,000
Provenance
Arno Henseler, Munich, GermanySize
H: 116 cm
H: 45.7 inch
Description
light wood, pigments, rattan,
The Kerewe mainly live on Ukerewe, which is the largest island in the southeast section of Lake Victoria. The production and use of these lightweight wood shields, according to Plaschke / Zirngibl, probably ended in the first decades of the 20th century. Travellers to these islands in Lake Victoria reported around 1940 that they were hardly any longer to be found.
Comparing literature
Baur, Ivan & Jan Elsen, Guba, Brussels 2002, p. 30, ill. 1