Shield
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Jan 1881
name: label: Donor Name
content: Tichkematse
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "RAWHIDE, WITH BUCKSKIN COVER PAINTED YELLOW, WITH PERSONAL AND TOTEMIC DESIGNS. STREAMER OF SPLIT BUFFALO HIDE DYED RED AND ORNAMENTED WITH FLICKER SKIN, EAGLE FEATHERS AND SCALP LOCKS WRAPPED WITH RED FLANNEL. INVENTORIED 1978."
label: Notes
content: George Levi of the Cheyenne delegation from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma made these comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit November 3-6, 2015. George noted that the design includes elks, eagles, lizard, thunderbirds. The shield is made very powerful with these animals. The man whose shield this was used the spirits to protect him, probably in battle. It is likely the spirits came to him in a dream and said they would protect him, which is why he used these particular images on his shield. It looks like some part of the tail is more modern and may not have originally been a part of this shield.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Indian Territory / Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 009922
label: USNM Number
content: E58616-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield