Shield
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Oct 1897
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OF RAWHIDE. BELLS, OXTAILS AND PLUMES. POISONED." See E178368 for blanket wrapping for this shield. See E229801 and E229802 for models of this shield.
label: Notes
content: Rawhide disk with hide cover, cow tail pendants, large brass bell and knitted yarn strap at back. Disk painted red with green disk at center, bunch of feathers and tuft of buffalo wool at top, upper edge covered by feathered red wool band with trailing ends. Cover painted red around perimeter, red spot on each side with bundle of dew claws tied to centers. See 229801-229802 for models of this shield. See 178368 for blanket wrapping for shield. 19" (48 cm). Associated names: Setkonkya. (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: 2 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: 032642
label: USNM Number
content: E178356-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield