swan-neck-shaped

Updated: June 29, 2025

Outside the square again, in a line with the king, were the household arms, a very handsome copper kettledrum, of French manufacture, surmounted on the outer edge with pretty little brass bells depending from swan-neck-shaped copper wire, two new spears, a painted leather shield, and magic wands of various devices, deposited on a carpet of leopard-skins the whole scene giving the effect of true barbarous royalty in its uttermost magnificence.

John Hanning Speke - The Discovery of the Source of the Nile