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Haniwa in the Form of a Shield

c. 500
(300–710 CE)
Earthenware with applied, cut, and incised designs and red slip
Overall: 120 x 48.7 x 18 cm (47 1/4 x 19 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1999.170
Location: not on view
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Description

Haniwa (clay cylinders) topped with the form of a shield, or with a shield and quiver of arrows, appear on some tomb mounds called kofun (old mounds). There are also warriors holding a shield, their heads peeping out over the tops, or diagonally across their bodies. There are even some haniwa with a warrior’s helmet sitting at the top of the cylinder above the shield. This unusual object has a shield and quiver on the front, and the face of a warrior wearing a helmet on the reverse.
Haniwa in the Form of a Shield

Haniwa in the Form of a Shield

c. 500

Japan, Kofun period (300–710 CE)

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