[BCMA] Small shield

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

Hi Tammy

Here is a similar shield. It is a Masai shield bought in 1973 in Kenya by a tourist. Size of this one is 30" x 18". In the collection of a relative, so it looked familiar. Other African tribes also had shields. It would require more definitive identification as to where it is from.

Hope this might help.

Stuart Stark
Ross Bay Villa Society





On Oct 2, 2014, at 2:36 PM, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv. wrote:

> Hi, everyone out there in Museum-land,
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> We have recently been offered this small shield with two metal spear tips (photo below).
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> All the donor can tell us is that she is from Claresholm, AB and the shield was displayed on the wall of a house on Columbia Lake where she grew up; the spear tips were always with it. The shield is 33 cm long and the spear tips are 24 cm, and one has a broken wooden shaft.
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> I’m wondering if anyone can help us identify it – and an appropriate home for it?
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> Thanks!
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> Tammy
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