Shield And Cover
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Mar 1871
label: Collection Date
content: 1871
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "USED IN BUFFALO DANCE." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SHIELD AND COVER.---SHIELD, THICK ROUND PIECE OF BUFFALO HIDE PAINTED GREEN, WITH "FOUR BUFFALO TRACKS ON THE PRAIRIE" IN BLACK. COVER, BUCKSKIN, ON WHICH ARE PAINTED LARGE OWL AND BROAD RAINBOW. ACCOMPANYING THE SHIELD IS A "MEDICINE MAN'S" WAND, BEING A CURVED STICK WRAPPED WITH RED CLOTH AND ORNAMENTED WITH STUMPS OF EAGLE'S FEATHERS. MANDAN INDIANS. DIAMETER, 21 INCHES. FORT BERTHOLD AGENCY, DAKOTA 1871. 10,449. COLLECTED BY DRS. GRAY AND MATTHEWS."
label: Notes
content: This is presumed to be the item originally cataloged as E8432, #132 in the AMM catalog, there listed as "Medicine shield used in the Buffalo Dance with head dress. Representing 4 buffalo tracks on the prairie. Cover decorated inside with picture of an owl under a rainbow. The feathered tail is attached to the shield by buckskin thongs which are secured behind." The headdress referred to is E8431, Mandan. It was apparently not numbered and so was recataloged in 1871 with the current number.
label: Notes
content: Speculatively, ET1279 somewhat resembles the wand referred to on the old exhibit label filed with the catalogue card.
label: Notes
content: See also headdress E8431.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Feb 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Fort Berthold Agency, Dakota / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mandan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002090
label: USNM Number
content: E10449-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 53 cm