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: Blue circle at center, surrounded by four rows of red and blue rays, feather pendant at center, two tufts of horsehair and braided yarn strap at back. Outside. Records: This was a shield of the Comanches, who "threw it away," probably because the owner had been wounded. It was found and appropriated by Kopdom. He was killed in Texas in 1859. (C). Associated names: Kopdom. (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: E229872-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model