Bouclier de parade "tafa" ·  Éthiopie, Amhara · ID: 3047291

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.

Littérature comparée

Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Dieter Plaschke, Afrikanische Schilde, München 1992, p. 70