Leather shield (Adraga)
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1800
notes: label: Description
content: This leather shield or adraga was made by Spanish soldiers in the far northern Mexican frontier of California or New Mexico ca. 1800. It is made of three pieces of leather hide stitched together and painted with a Spanish coat of arms, in use during the reign of Carols III (1759-88) a crown and two pillars.
label: Description
content: Shields like these were issued to Spanish soldiers on the frontier. Soldiers were to enlist for ten years with hope of better pay and land. Officals hoped the soldeiers and families would help colonize this frontier and enlarge the Spainish sphere of influence.
label: Description
content: The Spanish interaction with the people of the area had profound affects on the Native Americans already living in the area. Religion, trade, language, food, marriage, all combined to create a unique cultural landscape that did not exist anywhere else.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Mexico
label: place used
content: United States: New Mexico, Santa Fe
topic: label: Subject
content: Hispanics
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Clothing & Accessories
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.175188
label: catalog number
content: 175188
label: accession number
content: 29421
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shield
label: Object Name
content: shield
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather, rawhide (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 124.5 cm x 137.5 cm x 4 cm; 49 1/32 in x 54 1/8 in x 1 9/16 in