Shield (Image withheld)
date: label: Date created
content: 1840-1870
name: label: Culture/People
content: Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan)
label: Previous owner
content: Old Mountain Chief, Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan)
label: Previous owner
content: Sits in the Middle (Sitting in the Middle), Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan), ca. 1836-ca. 1907
label: Previous owner
content: Mountain Chief (Nin-Na-Stoko/Ninastoko/Big Brave/Ni-ne st-ar-ko), Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan), 1848-1942
label: Previous owner
content: Thomas A. Bradley (Thomas Aloysius Bradley), Non-Indian, 1888-1969
label: Donor
content: Thomas A. Bradley (Thomas Aloysius Bradley), Non-Indian, 1888-1969
notes: label: Collection History
content: Formerly owned by Old Mountain Chief (Pikuni Blackfeet, d. 1872); transferred to his son Sits in the Middle (Pikuni Blackfeet, ca. 1836-ca. 1907) at an unknown date; given by Sits in the Middle to his brother Mountain Chief (Pikuni Blackfeet, 1848-1942) in 1870; presented by Mountain Chief to Thomas Aloysius Bradley (1888-1969, owner of a freight company in the New York City area) in 1932 in recognition of Thomas Bradley's donation of funds for construction of a chapel built by the Marquette League of Catholic Indian Missions near Glacier National Park and the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana; donated to MAI by Thomas A. Bradley in 1933.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Montana; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan)
label: See related items
content: Hunting/Fishing/Warfare: Warfare
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 18/4853
label: Barcode
content: 184853.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hunting/Fishing/Warfare: Warfare
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Shield (Image withheld)
label: Media/Materials
content: Hide, wool cloth, paint, eagle feather/feathers
label: Techniques
content: Stretched, wrapped, painted