Parade shield "tafa"
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95th Tribal Art AuctionParade shield "tafa"
Ethiopia, Amhara
Provenance | Size | Starting price / estimated price |
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Italian Collection | D: 18.5 inch | This object is not available anymore. |
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.
Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Dieter Plaschke, Afrikanische Schilde, München 1992, p. 70