Bouclier de parade "tafa gašša"
Éthiopie, Amhara
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Provenance
French CollectionTaille
D: 39,5 cm
D: 15.6 inch
Description
leather, velvet, chiselled brass sheet,
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.