Cow Shield
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Mar 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Cow shield model (Tsenbo). Green spots on white ground, blue, red and yellow lines across center, above them figure of bull with blue forequarter and dots around midsection, bunch of feathers at right. Outside. Records: Period: before 1838-1891. This shield was carried by the noted raider, Tsentainte (White Horse), who died in 1892. The original was purchased from him in 1891 and is now in the National Museum of Natural History (165233). (C,T). Associated names: Honimati; Tsentainte. (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: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: 042431
label: USNM Number
content: E229838-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model