Object
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA INV.04084900
label: Local Note
content: Print from Mc Cormick Negative
label: Local Note
content: Black and white photoprint
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Somalis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Division of Ethnology photograph collection
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content: Division of Ethnology photograph collection / Middle East / Somaliland / Unspecified
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print (008 in x 010 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Shield, Rawhide:with Impressed Geometric Design: E. Hollis Hopkins Collection, Baltimore, Maryland

According to Heather Akou (10/28/2003), "[The photo] is the outside of a Somali warrior's shield. The design is made by incising the leather covering. The leather is usually hippopotamus or rhinocerous hide." A similar shield is in the ethnology collections of the Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology.