- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Shield of animal hide. It is oval in shape with rolled edges. In the centre there is an oval piece of hide knotted to the shield. The hide is cream and black in colour. On the underside there is a stick knotted along the length of the shield and bound with hide strips. [AB [OPS Move] 16/8/2016]
- Cultural groups
- Luo
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1933
- Date collected
- By 1933
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1933
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Wood Plant, Process Moulded, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Width: max 900 mm, Height: max 94 mm, Length: max 1480 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1933.26.20
- Research and responses
According to “African ethnonyms: index to art-producing peoples of Africa” by Daniel P. Biebuyck, Susan Kelliher and Linda McRae (G.K. Hall & Co.: New York, 1996), Lwoo is the name now used for the population also known as Jaluo or Luo. [CW 9/3/2000]
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, the Winam or Kavirondo Gulf is in Kenya. [CW 9/3/2000]
1933.26.20
Shield of animal hide. It is oval in shape with rolled edges. In the centre there is an oval piece of hide knotted to the shield. The hide is cream and black in colour. On the underside there is a stick knotted along the length of the shield and bound with hide strips. [AB [OPS Move] 16/8/2016]
1933.26.20
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