About this work
This highly ornamented leather shield is the type formerly used by elite warriors in Ethiopia. In the ethnographic collection of the National Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Commons file page gives the source as: Ethiopian Shield Uploaded by Elitre.
Original catalogue wording
This highly ornamented leather shield is the type formerly used by elite warriors in Ethiopia. In the ethnographic collection of the National Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Commons file page gives the source as: Ethiopian Shield Uploaded by Elitre. The file page records 2007-10-22 02:59 as the date of the photograph, not of the object.
Source classification: Arms & armour
- Date
- Not recorded in the catalogue
- Object type
- Arms & regalia
- Recorded place
- Ethiopia
- Holding institution
- Wikimedia Commons