War Shield
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jul 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Walter J. Hoffman
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY ORIGINAL SHIELD SENT TO CHICAGO FIELD MUSEUM. 1901. From card: [Original shield] "Exchanged with Field Columbia[n] Museum, Chicago, Ill., April 9, 1901. The Field Museum Cat. No. is 62,578. [A] Plain, unpainted buckskin shield cover [with this number is] still in USNM. Copy of this shield reproduced by James Mooney included in Accession # 42431 erroneously marked with cat. #229910 and changed to cat. # 154349A. On the original shield [now in Chicago], designs in parallel are in red and green. In the copy [# 154349A], the colors are red and black. The right hand upper and lower quarters, separated by an open band are the ones decorated with parallel, wide stripes of color. On the far left hand edge are parallel thin wavy stripes with a dot at the right hand end, in front of the bear. The bear is represented with only two legs, drawn up under him in a running position, and moving to the left. Five separate paw marks are shown to the right behind him. Refer to cat. no. 229,889 for the original Crow one. Refer; "Expedition". (magazine), Vol. 8, no. 3, Spring 1966, p. 39."
label: Notes
content: Shield cover Unpainted hide cover without shield. See 229889 for a model of this shield cover. This artifact was collected among the Crow and cataloged as Crow. Mooney's Kiowa informants identified the design (although not the shield itself) as that of a Crow shield captured by the Kiowa. 23" (58 cm). Records: Shield with painted inner cover exchanged with Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1901. (C).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Crow Agency, Crow Reservation / Big Horn County, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Crow (Apsaalooke)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025905
label: USNM Number
content: E154349-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield