MADAGASCAN OXHIDE SHIELD

MADAGASCAN OXHIDE SHIELD

Code: 10145

Dimensions:

Di: 54cm (21.3")

£3,200.00

Madagascan Ampigna wood and oxhide shield. Original wooden pegs to reverse. Tanala group, North East Fianarantsoa, late 19th to early 20th Century.

A similar example can be found in the collectiion of the Barbie-Meuller Museum, Geneva; collected by Josef Meuller before 1942.