Man's Shield
name: label: Discipline
content: Anthropology
label: Region
content: African Region
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Notes
content: A large elliptical shield made by the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania. Shields of this type are used by young men and considered symbols of manhood. The convex shield is composed of buffalo hide sewn onto a wooden frame. The surface of the shield is bisected into two panels with the border featuring alternating diamond shaped motifs in red, black, and white. Each side of the shield has a large white ellipse surrounded on one side by a uniform red pigment. On the other the white ellipse is surrounded by concentric borders of alternating black and white then red and white triangular bands in a larger field of black pigment. A wooden handle is affixed down the middle of the back of the shield and is wrapped with leather strips.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Dec 2020
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: South Central/South West Kenya, Africa, Kenya
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
culture: label: Culture
content: Maasai
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO400509-DSP
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
physicalDescription: label: Material
content: Leather, Wood, Paint