Shield: leather, round; shallow conical shape with rounded edges; semi-circular leather handle lashed to shield with crossed leather thongs; eight 1.0 cm perforations at rim; twisted cotton cord passed through two perforations for hanging; dark brown; circular design hand-tooled on front; diameter: ca. 53.0 cm. buffalo hide, hand fashioned.
Donor:
Lindsay Wildlife Museum
Collection place:
Ethiopia
Verbatim coll. place:
East Africa, Ethiopia unspecified
Materials:
Bison hide
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shields (armor)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1992
Context of use:
War shield from mid-1800s; paint traces on front; edges rounded to ward off weapons. verified by Larry E. Dawson.