Description:
Original label: "A modern native skin shield from Northern Rhodesia, South Africa. The shield proper consists of the heavy, stiff skin of an animal, cut to a large pointed oval, the hair short, white, with black patches. Parallel insertions are cut vertically in the middle, the upper series being filled with a black haired skin, the lower, with a brown haired skin. Running through six triangular fastenings on the back is a very light colored hard wood rod, 57 3/4" long, which is bound at the top with a long haired animal's tail, striped white, tan, and black, dangling from which are thin strips of gray haired skin."
Tags:
military; weapons Subjects:
Armies; Weapons Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=MH+SK+L.F.4 |
