Shield Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Oct 1897
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "WHITE DOVE AND PLUMES. POISONED. THE SHIELD MODEL BEARING THIS NUMBER DOES NOT CARRY A WHITE DOVE AND PLUMES. APPARENTLY WRONGLY NUMBERED BUT APPEARS TO BELONG WITH MONEY'S SHIELD MODEL GROUP."
label: Notes
content: Painted buckskin cover stretched over a flat metal disk and gathered at back. Upper half green, lower half yellow, black and red lines and dashes across mid-section, two red crosses upper right, two green crosses lower right. 8" (20 cm). (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: Notes
content: Listed on page 112 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "History of Fire Making and Illumination".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 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: 032642
label: USNM Number
content: E178355-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model