Shield
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1853
label: Collection Date
content: 1828 to 1851
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Jean L. Berlandier
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. Darius N. Couch
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CEREMONIAL SHIELD OF THE COMANCHE INDIANS. MADE OF TANNED RAWHIDE WITH BLACK AND WHITE CENTER, LOOKS LIKE A TARGET. EAGLE FEATHERS SUSPENDED FROM THE MIDDLE. SHIELD AND COVER. SHIELD, A THICK/ROUND PIECE OF BUFFALO HIDE WITH DECORATIONS. COVER. BUCKSKIN; SMALL BLUE CENTER STIPPLED WITH BLACK; AND ANIMAL WITH FIVE LONG CLAWS ON EACH FOOT AND A LONG POINTED NOSE [identified by Riku Ha¨ma¨la¨inen as a bear]; BLACK BORDER. TAMAULIPAS. MEX. 1867. SHIELD WAS COLLECTED 1828-1851 BY JEAN LOUIS BERLANDIER. COUCH BOUGHT COLLECTION FROM BERLANDIER'S WIDOW.-JCE."
label: Notes
content: Described on p. 11 of Ha¨ma¨la¨inen, Riku. 2010. Bear power motifs on Plains Indian shields = Ba¨renmotive in Schildbemalungen der Plainsindianer. Wyk auf Foehr, Germany: Tatanka Press: "On the front surface of the rawhide disc [of the shield] is a painted horned figure and two rudimentary human motifs on the upper half of the surface. To the outer edge of the shield is tied a border of red woolen trade cloth with numerous white pelican feathers. ... The background of the cover of this shield is yellow, and at the centre is a circle. On the right side of the circle is a bear in black whose body is situated in vertical fashion, heading upwards. A tuft of small red-dyed feathers is tied to the centre of the cover."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Sep 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: Comanche (Numunuu)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00085
label: USNM Number
content: E4430-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield