Magpie 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: Upper portion yellow, lower portion blue, with black lines and dots between, bird body on right, bead-wrapped hoop on left, upper edge covered by feathered red wool band with trailing ends, similar band down center. Inside. Records: Period: 1860-1871. In the original the feather pendant from the beaded wheel and the alternating feathers upon the red cloth border are eagle feathers. Those upon the center cloth pendant are of the "white owl." The bird pendant in the original is the whole body of a kingfisher. (C,T). Associated names: Tedaldati; Kinatalati; Hanpogyato; Motsatse. (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: 4 Mar 2021
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: E229857-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model