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: Yellow with blue dot in center surrounded by small green dots and black circle, hooves at right, feathers at left, yarn-wrapped horsehair tuft at top, horsehair tufts, bell, and braided yarn strap at back. Outside. See 229892 for another variant of this shield. Records: Period: 1830-1890. This was the shield carried by the great chief, Dohasan (Little Bluff), who negotiated the first treaty with the United States in 1837 and ruled over his tribe until his death in 1866. (C,T). Associated names: Padogai; Habate; Dohasan. (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: 16 Jun 2023
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 042431
label: USNM Number
content: E229853-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model