Editing Shield (section)

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File:Tempio di Hatshepsut 001.JPG|Image from [[Hatshepsut|Hatshepsut's]] expedition to Punt showing Egyptians soldiers with shields (wood/animal skin). 15th century BC. Temple of Hathor [[Deir el-Bahari]]
File:Warrior Alkimachos Painter MAN.jpg|A hoplite by painter Alkimachos, on an [[Attica|Attic]] [[Red-figure pottery|red-figure]] vase, c. 460 BC. Shield has a curtain which serves as a protection from arrows.
File:38-svaghi, lotta, Taccuino Sanitatis, Casanatense 4182..jpg|Sword and buckler (small shield) combat, plate from the ''[[Tacuinum Sanitatis]]'' illustrated in [[Lombardy]], ca. 1390.
File:Codex Manesse 052r Walther von Klingen (detail 2).jpg|Drawing from the ''Codex Manesse'' showing [[jousting]] [[knights]] on horseback carrying shields.
File:Shield Aztec or Mixtec (Chimalli).jpg|Ceremonial shield with mosaic decoration. [[Aztec]] or [[Mixtec]], AD 1400-1521 ([[British Museum]]).
File:Australian Aboriginal shield.JPG|Australian Aboriginal shield, [[Royal Albert Memorial Museum]].
File:Nias shield.jpg|[[Nias]] ceremonial shield.
File:Hippopotamus Hide Shield2.jpg|Hippopotamus Hide Shield from Sudan. Currently housed at [[Westminster College (Pennsylvania)|Westminster College]] in [[New Wilmington]], [[Pennsylvania]].
File:AHOTWbark shield.JPG|Aboriginal bark shield collected in [[Botany Bay]], New South Wales, during Captain Cook's first voyage in 1770 (British Museum) 
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