African shield for pleasure and opinion

colin henshaw · 6th March 2014, 08:35 PM

A good example of this type, I like it. Could be Turkana or a neighbouring tribe, hard to say... Aluminium was/is used in quite a few native artefacts from Kenya.

Sometimes see this type of shield made from scrap iron.

Regards.

Sajen · 6th March 2014, 10:40 PM

Hi Martin,

very nice Turkana shield. Many collectors don't like when aluminium is used by ethnograhic items but I am sure that this will change in 100 years!

This shield is tribal used and it was used the material which was available, I see this very relaxed.

Again, very nice shield.

Regards,
Detlef

Martin Lubojacky · 7th March 2014, 04:35 PM

Thank you all for comments !
Detlef, I see it also very relaxed. They really used material which was available and which they considered nice. (I already wrote, I think, in some old thread, that once, when I was in a desperate need of money, I offered a few pieces of things I brought from Ethiopia to Naprstek´s Muzeum in Prague. The museum has chosen two things and one of them was a wooden vessel, adorments of which were made of green plastics. It was real, used by willagers and very nice artefact ...). I like this shield incliding its aluminium parts and I think aluminium has also been in use in Africa "for a couple of years", from the Second World War at least (I personally consider African artefacts older than 40 years as "old" ones. But the most important is natural beauty - either old or new).
Refards,
Martin

Sajen · 7th March 2014, 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martin Lubojacky

Thank you all for comments !
Detlef, I see it also very relaxed. They really used material which was available and which they considered nice. (I already wrote, I think, in some old thread, that once, when I was in a desperate need of money, I offered a few pieces of things I brought from Ethiopia to Naprstek´s Muzeum in Prague. The museum has chosen two things and one of them was a wooden vessel, adorments of which were made of green plastics. It was real, used by willagers and very nice artefact ...). I like this shield incliding its aluminium parts and I think aluminium has also been in use in Africa "for a couple of years", from the Second World War at least (I personally consider African artefacts older than 40 years as "old" ones. But the most important is natural beauty - either old or new).
Refards,
Martin

I agree complete with you, I have two well used Halmahera shields (salawaku) in my collection where the inlays are from white plastic!

Both have a very nice patination so I am sure that they were in use for a couple of decades and I like both very much. I think both are from the 40th until 50th last century and in my eyes are good ethnograhic examples for this time when plastic was for this people a new and maybe valuable material.

Regards,
Detlef

Tim Simmons · 7th March 2014, 05:34 PM

I think Africans have used Aluminium for well over a century.

Pieje · 7th March 2014, 08:24 PM

I agree, aluminium was already used in the 1920ties in former Belgian Congo, possibly even before that.

6th March 2014, 08:35 PM	#1
colin henshaw Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,429	A good example of this type, I like it. Could be Turkana or a neighbouring tribe, hard to say... Aluminium was/is used in quite a few native artefacts from Kenya. Sometimes see this type of shield made from scrap iron. Regards.

6th March 2014, 10:40 PM	#2
Sajen Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Germany, Dortmund Posts: 9,165	Hi Martin, very nice Turkana shield. Many collectors don't like when aluminium is used by ethnograhic items but I am sure that this will change in 100 years! This shield is tribal used and it was used the material which was available, I see this very relaxed. Again, very nice shield. Regards, Detlef

7th March 2014, 04:35 PM	#3
Martin Lubojacky Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Czech Republic Posts: 843	Thank you all for comments ! Detlef, I see it also very relaxed. They really used material which was available and which they considered nice. (I already wrote, I think, in some old thread, that once, when I was in a desperate need of money, I offered a few pieces of things I brought from Ethiopia to Naprstek´s Muzeum in Prague. The museum has chosen two things and one of them was a wooden vessel, adorments of which were made of green plastics. It was real, used by willagers and very nice artefact ...). I like this shield incliding its aluminium parts and I think aluminium has also been in use in Africa "for a couple of years", from the Second World War at least (I personally consider African artefacts older than 40 years as "old" ones. But the most important is natural beauty - either old or new). Refards, Martin

7th March 2014, 05:34 PM	#5
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,843	I think Africans have used Aluminium for well over a century.

7th March 2014, 08:24 PM	#6
Pieje Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Belgium Posts: 132	I agree, aluminium was already used in the 1920ties in former Belgian Congo, possibly even before that.