Shield-Cover
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jun 1926
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Joseph T. Clarke
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph T. Clarke
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Wood circular band as framework, covered with cotton cloth painted with design of stars and a black bear; 17 tail feathers of eagle attached to marginal wood frame of rawhide strips."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated Fig. 11, p. 25 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. Photo caption notes: "A light shield made of thin cotton cloth stretched over a wooden hoop. Although the structure of the shield suggests it was made after the intertribal wars in the reservation period, the design indicates its being older, based on bear power in war medicine." Object is also described on p. 21 of this publication: "In the middle [of the shield] appears a large bear painted in dark brown, heading to the left. The heart of the bear is illustrated in red, but there is no lifeline from its mouth toward the heart. Above and below as well as on the right and on the left of the bear is a red four-pointed star. The background is painted in yellow all around except a brown band on the edge. On the edge all around the shield hang eagle feathers."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains (Southern), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Unspecified, Southern Plains
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 091897
label: USNM Number
content: E331574-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield