- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Circular black leather shield, conical, with tooled decoration. [MJD 28/07/2010]
- Long description
- Circular shield of black leather, conical, with upturned rim rounded back at the edge, and with a disc-shaped central boss with a nipple, set in a trough; the rim is pierced with marginal holes. Rigid semi-circular handle of leather wrapped around a (?wooden) core, each end lashed through the shield with two stout thong stitches. The rim has a thong attached for suspension, knotted through two of the marginal holes. The outer surface is tooled with alternating ring bands and crosshatched bands up to the edge, with a zigzag star pattern encircling the central trough. [MJD 28/07/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1912
- Date collected
- 1902 - 1912
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1944
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Wood Plant, Process Stitched, Process Tooled, Process Knotted
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 520 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1944.10.19
1944.10.19
Circular black leather shield, conical, with tooled decoration. [MJD 28/07/2010]
1944.10.19
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