Toys
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Dec 1887
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Charles Rau
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Charles Rau
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TRIPOD FROM WHICH ARE SUSPENDED BOW CASE AND QUIVER, SHIELD, LEGGINS AND MOCCASINS. MADE BY TICHKEMATSE (a.k.a. Squint Eyes), A CHEYENNE BOY. SEE 178934. EXHIBIT HALL 9. INVENTORIED 1978." FROM CONDITION REPORT AFTER REMOVAL FROM EXHIBIT HALL 9 (C. VALENTOUR 3/98): "SHIELD: CIRCULAR PIECE OF RAWHIDE COVERED W/ BUCKSKIN & FITTED W/ TWISTED BUCKSKIN THONG. FRONT OF SHIELD DECORATED W/ PAINTED SYMBOLS OF BUFFALO, BEAR CLAWS, FEATHER, ETC. QUIVER: 2 BUCKSKIN POUCHES SEWN W/ COTTON THREAD AT BOTTOM & ONE SIDE. FRINGED AT BOTTOM & TOP. POUCHES JOINED TO WIDE BUCKSKIN CARRYING STRAP. LONGER POUCH CONTAINS SMALL WOODEN BOW W/ SINEW BOW STRING. SMALLER POUCH CONTAINS 3 NOTCHED, POINTED WOODEN ARROWS."
label: Notes
content: Original list in accession file identifies these as made by Tichkematse (Squint Eyes) in Washington, D.C. in January 1880 of deer skin.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 7
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai), Southern
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019931
label: USNM Number
content: E178929-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model / Bow Model / Quiver Model / Arrow Model / Tripod Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - Quiver
content: 22 cm
label: Width - Quiver
content: 15 cm
label: Diameter - Shield
content: 5.5 cm