shield
- Museum number
- Af1950,30.1
- Description
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Register 1950:
Hide circular shield with notches in edge and conical boss; hide handle stitched in behind boss & twisted leather lanyard; probably belonged to Chief.
- Dimensions
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Height: 60 centimetres
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Width: 59 centimetres
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Depth: 16 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1950:
Hide circular shield with notches in edge & conical boss; hide handle stitched in behind boss & twisted leather lanyard.
"Spears, throwing knives or rhinocerous [sic] hide shield collected by Lt. Col. S.T. Grigg, DSO, MC. in 1921, from S.W.Darfur (S.Sudan) when in the Waziristan force during the attack on NYALA by natives under Ali Dinar.
Campaign took place mainly in Nuba mountains & spears most probably belonged to a minor Nuba Chief.
ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1980 Sept., London, BM, Asante: Kingdom of Gold
- Acquisition date
- 1950
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1950:
"Spears, throwing knives or rhinocerous hide shield collected by Lt. Col. S.T. Grigg, DSO, MC. in 1921, from S.W.Darfur (S.Sudan)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1950,30.1
