Taime Shield "Tsenbo"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Oct 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: 2 parts: shield and cover.
label: Notes
content: Taime shield (Tsenbo). Rawhide disk with two hide covers, hide straps at back. Disk painted but inaccessable to view. Inner cover: Black dot at center surrounded by green disk, green crescents at upper right and left, green band across lower section with black vertical dashes below. Claw suspended at left, stuffed crow attached at top. Outer cover: Painted white. See 229827-229828 for models of this shield. 19.5" (50 cm). See Photographs section, inventory nos. 00636900, 00648700, and 00649200 for pictures of Adalpepti holding this shield. Records: Made from the hide of a buffalo bull with two covers of buckskin. Outside cover was chalked to keep it clean. The paintings on the inside cover represent the rain, moon, sun, and sunlight. Attached are several feathers, eagle claws, and small roots, all of which possessed medicinal or sacred properties. The crow was detached from the shield just before going into battle and fastened upon the head of the owner of the shield. This shield is said to have been made under direct inspiration from the god, whose image is exposed in the Medicine Dance, and has a history running back sixty years [ca. 1835]. (L). (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: 29 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, 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: 026286
label: USNM Number
content: E165234-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield