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Description: | Narrow shield, kanta, carved from a single block of wood including a carved central hand-grip. It is decorated on outside by excised lozenges and rectangles, the latter set with cowrie shells. It is further decorated with cane binding and hair of a variety of colours. The outside is painted black.
caption: Frontal view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 28.4.56/18
caption: Rear view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 28.4.56/18 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | wood plant fibre cane cowrie shell shields (weapons: accessories) hair War- and Peace-making | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-57616 | Go to resource |
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