Panther Shield
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Mar 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Blue-painted panther on left side, brown dot at top, two red cloth balls at top, furred hide strap at back. Inside. Records: Period: 1835-1861. The originator of this shield was the father of the noted Lone Wolf, leader of the hostilities in the outbreak of 1874-1875. The two red buttons at top represent two red cloth "medicine bags" in the original. The pendants, of prairie dog skin, represent panther tail pendants in the original. (T,C). Associated names: Tamtedal; Giatihadla; Guipago. (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Jan 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 042431
label: USNM Number
content: E229862-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model