Crocodile or alligator hide shield. Fashioned in a long oval with a wooden support/handle running the length of the shield on the back side (threaded through the innermost layers of the hide. Said to be from Southern Sudan. Given to donor by someone who said that he had acquired it in the 1930s.
Donor:
Elizabeth Colson
Collection place:
Sudan
Collector:
Elizabeth Colson
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shields (armor)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
September 9, 2011
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 12 centimeters, length 91 centimeters, and width 37 centimeters