Shield with 2 covers
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1884
name: label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: Rawhide disk with three covers, knitted yarn strap at back. Inner cover: Blue disk at center surrounded by concentric circles in yellow, green, white, and red, row of bullet marks pointing toward center, upper edge covered by feathered red stroud cloth band with trailing ends. Middle cover: Large green disk at center, yellow band around perimeter, faint human figures in blue discernable at center. Outer cover: Large green disk at center, yellow band around perimeter, two smudged brown spots on each side. Bundle of feathers at center. 18.25" (46 cm). Records: This was captured from a Kiowa chief. Received by Army Medical Museum on March 21, 1879 from Lt. D.B. Wilson, Adgt. 25th Infantry. (C,L). (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: 13 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, 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: 014053
label: USNM Number
content: E73073-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield