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Long narrow shields from the Asiatic Isles
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1874 catalogue entry:
71. PARRYING SHIELD, similar to Nos. 69 and 70 with the addition
of a small shield or hand guard. Another variety of this weapon
has a straight broad blade springing from the handle in the centre
at right angles to the parrying horns. The whole weapon is sometimes
made of steel.
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Pitt Rivers Museum record:
| General Description: Indian parrying shield made from antelope horns with small central hand shield. |
| Accession number: 1884.30.27 |
| Continent: Asia Country: India |
| Dimensions: L = 485 mm, Diam = 165 mm |
| When collected: ?Prior to 1874 |
| Other owners: Pitt Rivers sent this object to Bethnal Green Museum for display by ?early 1874. |
| Notes: Black book entry - Screen 2 25 Shield parrying, Antelope's horns with metal band. Delivery Catalogue II entry - Shields from different localities. Parrying shield, antelope horn, iron tips and hand guard 71 Accession Book IV entry - Similar object with small round shield in the centre, India [Drawing] Card Catalogue entry - ALF 71. India. 71 = 25 black. Parrying shield made of two antelope horns set in opposite directions with small round shield in the centre. Original Pitt Rivers collection. Old General Pitt Rivers Label - Parrying shield, similar to numbers 69 and 70, with the addition of a small shield or hand guard. Another variety of this weapon has a straight broad blade springing from the handle in the centre at right angles to the parrying horns. The whole weapon is sometimes made of steel. Old General Pitt Rivers Label - 25 Other information - Between 1884.30.27 and 28 is a single line entry - [Pointed instrument of antelope horn described under Religious Emblems ... [illegible] [Black 26] PR Catalogue 72 [1884.58.56] Displayed in Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums (V&A). Similar shield called márú is said by C Feest in the Art of War 1980 to be Punjabi. The horns have tips of iron and a brass 'ferrule' at the other end of each one. All the brass is very tarnished. The hand shield has 4 brass studs and one half-moon shape on its front. A central nail or screw attaches the hand shield to the horns PR number: 71 |