Ethiopian royal and imperial crowns

These crowns and the church in the background suggest the close relationship between the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and political leaders. Ethiopian society was and remains quite hierarchical.

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

1993-11

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Ethiopian

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

Welch-Ludwig Collection

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