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). Perimeter painted half red, half blue, bands of yellow, red, and blue geometric designs on lower half, figure of bull with blue forequarters and spotted hind quarters on left, red Maltese cross outlined in blue at upper center, both sides covered by red wool bands with trailing ends hung with metal cones, two horsehair tufts, bell, and braided yarn strap at back. Inside. Records: Copied from original in National Museum of Natural History (165233). Associated names: Honimate; 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: 11 Dec 2014
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: E229839-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model