Shield
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Sep 1976
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. George C. Ruhle
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. George C. Ruhle
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Given to Dr. Ruhle by Calf Child, N. Blackfoot in the 1930's. Note: This appears to be a 20th century version of an Indian shield, consisting of a red and yellow painted disk of thin rawhide and a buckskin drawstring covering stretched over a circular piece of masonite. The skin cover with band of fringe and white feather tassel, resembles older shield covers. Note: Extensive efforts to locate a traditional Blackfoot Indian shield for the collections of the Museum of the Plains Indian during the early 1940's were in vain. There were no traditional shields remaining on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana in the posession of Indians at that time. - jce [John C. Ewers]."
label: Notes
content: Provenience note: Ruhle was given E419098A and E419104A by Siksika Blackfoot man Joe Calf Child, so the Calf Child who gave him E419107A is presumably the same man.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Dec 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi), Siksika
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 323955
label: USNM Number
content: E419107A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield