Buffalo 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: From card: "Inside. Belonged to Pa-gyato - Buffalo Old Man." Model of shield E178356.
label: Notes
content: Buffalo shield model (Pa). Red with large green disk at center, feathers, buffalo wool, and bells tied at top, upper edge covered by red wool band with trailing ends, back painted red with two horsehair pendants and braided yarn strap. Copied from original in National Museum of Natural History, catalog number 178356. Records: Associated names: Pagyato; Setkonkya. (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: E229802-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model