Shield
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Nov 1947
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. James D. Glennan
label: Donor Name
content: Frances Glennan
notes: label: Notes
content: IDENTIFIED IN DOCUMENTATION AS COMANCHE, NOT KIOWA.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Rawhide base [shield], painted; with two painted skin covers; outer cover painted in blue, black, green and yellow. Covers partially destroyed. Entered as No. 135 in Glennan's catalog" "Shield, old, seen by Tahbone in forks of a tree near the Washita, west of Poor Buffalo's near Abbaconics in summer of 1895; while going up to Drews' camp at Arapaho. I persuaded him to get it for me in November '95. He does not wish me to show it or tell anyone that he got it as he might be abused for doing it. It is old and either put away by the owner or at his death. Tahbone thinks that it is Comanche, and that it belongs to Abbaconic, a Comanche Chief, living on the Washita.""
label: Notes
content: Inner shield cover illustrated Fig. 29, p. 46 in Ha¨ma¨la¨inen, Riku. 2010. Bear power motifs on Plains Indian shields = Ba¨renmotive in Schildbemalungen der Plainsindianer. Wyk auf Foehr, Germany: Tatanka Press. Object is described p. 47: "Onto the surface of the rawhide disc [shield] is painted a green circle and around it is a greenish-blue stripe and eight radial lines in blue. The inner cover has a large horned anthropomorphic figure formed of a white central disc outlined with a red stripe, eyes and mouth, and a green triangular section down from the face of this figure. Between the horns are two creatures in green, a small mammal at the left and a bird at the right. On both sides of the central figure is a bear paw outlined in green and coloured in red and black, the claws reaching outwards. The surface of the outer cover is divided vertically into three sections. The background of the left section is painted in yellow and the right one in blue, whereas the central section has been left unpainted. On the central section appears a disc painted in green and outlined with a blue stripe. In the disc eyes and a mouth are painted in blue, and blue zigzag lines run downwards from the eyes. Two zigzag lines with triangular points stretch out from the bottom edge of the surface. On the left section appears a single bear paw outlined in blue, reaching upwards with the claws pointing outwards. From the bottom of the paw four zigzag lines run downwards. This shield with both its covers has suffered badly from water damage ..."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Nov 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Poor Buffalo's, West Of, Washita River, Near, Oklahoma Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Comanche (Numunuu)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 177672
label: USNM Number
content: E385897-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield