The 'Elongo': The Power of the Maasai Shield - Google Arts & Culture
Maasai shields, the ' elongo ', represent one of the many genres of African artifacts with both utilitarian craft and fine art characteristics. This shield holds many stories, including...
Shield | Maasai peoples | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: Shield. Date: 19th–20th century. Geography: Kenya or Tanzania. Culture: Maasai peoples. Medium: Leather, wood, pigment, fur. Dimensions: L. 33 1/4 in. (84.5 cm) Classification: Hide-Implements. Credit Line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Joseph J. Shapiro, 1972. Object Number: 1978.412.644
Maasai Shields and Their Place in African Life - Africa Imports
2009年5月20日 · Maasai shields are used not only as weapons in the Maasai culture of Kenya. They also express the art and culture of the Maasai people in Kenya. Each shield is crafted from buffalo hide sewn onto a wooden frame. The handle is attached at the center back of the shield and wrapped with leather strips.
Traditional African Weapons — Google Arts & Culture
Shields represent one of the many genres of artifacts that blur the line between utilitarian craft and fine art. This convex, elliptical shield comes from the Maasai, a pastoralist people who live...
African Weaponry Beyond War — Google Arts & Culture
The powerful Maasai shield. Maasai shields, the 'elongo', represent one of the many genres of African artifacts with both utilitarian craft and fine art characteristics. On the utilitarian...
A Warrior Shield’s Journey from the Mall to Maasailand
2014年8月13日 · The shield was a centerpiece of their presentation—and quite a focal point for visiting students and families! After careful repackaging and consultation with their airline, the shield is now safely back in Maasailand, where it will continue to give voice to the past and play a key role in educating into the future about Maasai culture.
Blood and Leather—re-creating the Maasai war shield
2012年10月31日 · But one icon of Maasai history—those tall, intricately decorated rawhide shields, so universally recognizable that one features centrally on Kenya’s national flag—seemed lost forever, save as dusty relics in museums, rare and expensive objets d’art from exclusive curio dealers, or, tragically, as cheap, undersized, shoddily made tourist ...
Explore – Maasai Culture East Africa — Exploring Overland
Maasai traditional buffalo hide shield with red ochre and black pigment (both mixed with buffalo blood), and a circular design that marked its bearer as a decorated veteran in war and as a lion hunter (British Museum collection, research specimen number AN00521410_001)
Mark A. Johnson Tribal Art >One Image
This larger and older shield is not only a weapon but also a way to express Maasai art and culture. Pastoralist Maasai from the grasslands of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania used such shields in warfare, hunting, and rites of passage.
Shield | Collections Online
A shield, such as this one, was one of the most important objects owned by a Maasai warrior, or moran, which he used not only in warfare and hunting but also as an indicator of his status and prestige. A moran made his own shield from the hide of a buffalo he had hunted and killed.