Shield
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: Rawhide disk with hide cover, red dot at center surrounded with black and brown concentric circles, arching lines to right and left, bird of prey with outstretched wings at top, square with radiating lines from corners and row of black circles at right, red four-pointed star below, spurred circle divided into quarters and wedge shape filled with lines and dots at left. NOTE: The design of this undocumented shield is not typical of the Kiowa. 19.5" (50 cm). (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: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Texas, 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: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E361808-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield