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  • Heraldic shield
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    granted to Aboriginal Canadians by the Canadian Heraldic Authority, or the Nguni shield used in African heraldry (likewise, Christian organisations and Masonic...
    18 KB (1,900 words) - 06:58, 6 October 2023
  • Nguni stick-fighting Nguni shield Nguni homestead Nguni (surname) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nguni. If an internal link...
    362 bytes (61 words) - 11:39, 5 June 2019
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    Ballistic shield Battersea Shield Buckler Enarmes Escutcheon (heraldic shield) Firing port Glagwa Guige Heater shield Kite shield Nguni shield Pavise Qauata...
    19 KB (2,205 words) - 12:39, 3 March 2024
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    recently been relegated to ceremonial use. Cowhide was used to make Nguni shields and the traditional skirt called the isidwaba. Men wore a calfskin flap...
    2 KB (319 words) - 08:10, 23 June 2022
  • Although Nguni/Xhosa styles of fighting may use only two sticks, variations of Bantu/Nguni stick-fighting throughout Southern Africa incorporate shields as...
    3 KB (363 words) - 19:56, 21 October 2023
  • shield (Korean, Chinese) Round shield Scuta, rectangular, tower and oval scutum (Roman) Targe (European) Nguni shield (African) Chīmalli (American) Enarmes...
    30 KB (2,619 words) - 07:47, 18 March 2024
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    yellow for the resources of Eswatini. The central focus of the flag is a Nguni shield and two spears, symbolizing protection from the country's enemies. Its...
    4 KB (388 words) - 00:37, 15 April 2024
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    Ndebele language mean "the men of the long shields", a reference to the Ndebele warriors' use of the Nguni shield. The Matabele were descendants of a faction...
    12 KB (1,302 words) - 23:04, 9 March 2024
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    version of the Nguni shield. Furthermore, it is believed that he taught his warriors how to use the shield's left side to hook the enemy's shield to the right...
    54 KB (6,810 words) - 18:39, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ecclesiastical heraldry
    Italy often use a shield shaped like a horse's face-armor. Clergy in South Africa sometimes follow the national style using a Nguni shield. Women traditionally...
    49 KB (5,899 words) - 13:42, 17 January 2024
  • mounted warrior from the Mongol Empire. Photograph of a Ngoni warrior with nguni shield c. 1895 A recreation of Roman legionaries wearing the lorica segmentata...
    28 KB (2,472 words) - 20:55, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coat of arms of Eswatini
    a traditional Nguni shield which represents "protection", the palm leaves represent a traditional crown of Swatinian. Above the shield is the King's lidlabe...
    2 KB (129 words) - 15:11, 25 February 2024
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    Drift. Most Zulu warriors were armed with an assegai (short spear) and a nguni shield made of cowhide. The Zulu army drilled in the personal and tactical use...
    43 KB (5,767 words) - 13:09, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bantu peoples of South Africa
    fighting may use only two sticks, variations of Nguni stick-fighting throughout Southern Africa incorporate shields as part of the stick-fighting weaponry. Zulu...
    60 KB (7,700 words) - 20:17, 21 April 2024
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    weapon used before the introduction of firearms. The Zulu, Xhosa, and other Nguni tribes of South Africa were renowned for their use of the assegai. Shaka...
    3 KB (315 words) - 17:34, 17 April 2024
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    African praise poetry as charges and/or supporters the increasing use of Nguni shields, especially in civic arms the occasional use of tinctures such as brunatre...
    14 KB (1,875 words) - 22:54, 11 March 2024
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    The modern Xhosa are Nguni people, a stock of Bantu [citation needed] The Xhosa people are descendants of the ancestors of Ngunis. Xhosa oral history also...
    47 KB (5,717 words) - 08:05, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gungunhana
    probably, on the banks of the Limpopo River, where the main settlements of the Nguni people then stood. He was the son of Mzila (or Muzila), who was king of...
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