Shield
Category
Leatherwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oryx hide
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303932
Summary
A circular Somali shield made of oryx hide, with central raised boss and outward curving lip. The leather decorated with incised linear patterns. Hand grip and strap. Collected by Lord Egerton Somalia, 1937. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton, Somalia, 1937