Shield
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1868
label: Collection Date
content: 1867 to 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: THE ACCESSION FILE FOR E6326 - E6361 NOTES ONLY THAT THE OBJECTS WERE SENT FROM FORT STEVENSON IN 1868. THE COLLECTORS, DRS. GRAY & MATTHEWS, WERE POSTED TO THIS FORT IN 1867-68 (IN PRESENT-DAY NORTH DAKOTA), BUT PRIOR TO THAT, DR. MATTHEWS HAD SERVED AT FORT BERTHOLD (WHICH LAY ONLY A FEW MILES FROM FORT STEVENSON), AS WELL AS AT FORT UNION FURTHER NORTH ON THE UPPER MISSOURI RIVER (ON THE MONTANA/NORTH DAKOTA BORDER). NEAR THERE, AT FORT BUFORD, DR. GRAY HAD BEEN POSTED IN 1867, AND IN 1866 SERVED AT FORT RANDALL (IN PRESENT-DAY SOUTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA). PRECISE PROVENIENCE IS THEREFORE UNCERTAIN FOR THESE OBJECTS; "FORT BERTHOLD," "FORT STEVENSON," "UPPER MISSOURI RIVER," OR SIMPLY "DAKOTA TERRITORY" INCONSISTENTLY APPEAR IN THE CARD CATALOG LISTINGS FOR THIS SERIES. (CFS/1995).
label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SHIELD AND COVER.---SHIELD, A THICK ROUND PIECE OF BUFFALO HIDE, UNDECORATED. COVER, BUCKSKIN, WITH BLACK AND GREEN MARGIN, AND BLACK HEAD OF BUFFALO. ARICKAREE INDIANS. DIAMETER, 2O INCHES. FORT STEVENSON, DAKOTA, 1868. DEPOSITED BY U.S. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM COLLECTED BY DRS. GRAY AND MATTHEWS".
label: Notes
content: A similar shield with buffalo image on its cover, presumably created by the same man as E6349, is in the collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, # 2004.35. It is illustrated on pp. 156 - 157 of Torrence, Gaylord. 2014. The Plains Indians Artists of Earth and Sky. Skira.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Fort Stevenson, Mclean County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arikara (Sahnish)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001281
label: USNM Number
content: E6349-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 51 cm