Bouclier de parade "tafa"
Éthiopie, Amhara
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Provenance
Italian CollectionTaille
D: 47 cm
D: 18.5 inch
Description
leather, velvet, chiselled brass,
Initially used purely as military equipment, these shields became more and more elaborately decorated in the course of time and were transformed into purely decorative objects of imperial dignitaries.