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ARUSI SHIELD, ETHIOPIA
Height: 29½ in. (75 cm.)
Provenance
Ambre Congo, Pierre Loos, Bruxelles
Ernst Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, before 1993

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Lot Essay

Beautiful round-shaped shield made out of buffalo hide (syncerus caffer). The low-relief motifs, formed before the skin was dried, recall crocodile's scales. For a related example, see Plaschke and D., Zirngibl, M., 1992, ill. 59.

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