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18th July 2006, 11:57 AM
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Ethiopian shield
Ah, here come back my first love!! AFRICA!!!
 Pics from seller a nice ethiopian shield, diameter 50 cm. Comments are welcome.
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18th July 2006, 12:14 PM
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Gorgeeeeez piece! Which Ethiopian ethnic group does this come from??
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18th July 2006, 12:35 PM
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Thank you Charles, unfortunatly i can't be more precise, but hope someone here will do
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18th July 2006, 03:26 PM
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Nice to see you went back to your first love  A lovely shield beautiful patina.Lew |
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18th July 2006, 03:29 PM
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Thank you Lew,
i hope to have this one very soon!!! |
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18th July 2006, 04:25 PM
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Just the ticket
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18th July 2006, 07:56 PM
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On this marvelous shield we can see that the designs have clearly been applied freehand with no use of mechanical rotation or spinning. Also it looks like the hand tools has not included rollers.
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18th July 2006, 08:02 PM
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Thank you Tim
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18th July 2006, 08:45 PM
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Very nice design of the patterns on this this shield.
Nice one Flavio. Luc |
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18th July 2006, 08:58 PM
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Thanks a lot Luc
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18th July 2006, 10:12 PM
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What a fantastic shield.....it just oozes quality
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24th July 2006, 07:16 AM
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You are quite right about the Gile. I am not brave enough to say this form of shield would not have been used over a wide area including Abyssinian warriors for whom many swords were made. A big Gile or an Abyssinian Shotel or trade sword all would look fabulous with the shield.
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24th July 2006, 06:22 PM
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Hi Tim. I agree. The shield may have found its way into the hands of an "abyssinian" warrior. One thing about the Afar/Danakil though: they are SO TRADITIONAL that I doubt they would be using anything but their gile. I have seen recent pictures of these tribesmen carrying AK47 AND the gile. And, by the way, taking a closer look at the picture of the Issa warrior that I submitted, I noticed that he is in fact wearing a gile. You can see it with the handle sitting on the guy's lap and the scabbard's tip brass decoration pointing upward. Cool.
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24th July 2006, 06:39 PM
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Hello Roano, could you post a higher resolution picture of the issa warrior? Thank you
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25th July 2006, 01:12 AM
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Hi Flavio. I am afraid this is the highest I can go. However, if you so wish,
e-mail me at ROANOA@SHAW.CA and I'll send it to you. It's a BIG file.... Roano |
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25th July 2006, 06:58 PM
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Hello Roano, you have an email.
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