Bear Shield Small Models 4
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: Bear shield models (Set). Four shields. One unpainted with feathers at center and braided yarn strap at back. Three painted with similar motifs adjusted to size of model: red lines at top, forequarters of bear on right side, guns on left, feathers at center, fringed hide strap on larger model, red cloth strap on one smaller model. Outside. Copied from the original in National Museum of Natural History (154349). 1. 6.5" (17 cm); 2. 4.25" (11 cm); 3. 4.25" (11 cm); 4. 8" (20 cm). Records: Period: 1780-1865. This shield was originally captured from the Crows by an ancestral Kicking Bird before the removal of the Kiowas from the north. (T,C). Associated names: Angopti; Teneangopti; Setimkia. (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: 11 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
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: E229889-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model