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: Orange with blue dot at center surrounded by yellow, black, and white concentric circles, upside-down, red human figures on each side with wavy lines below eyes, blue crescents above heads, beads and feathers at center, hooves, feather, and bone at right, left pendant missing, piece of furred hide at top, two horsehair tufts and braided yarn strap at back. Outside. Records: Paitalyi (Sun Boy) was a noted Chief during the period of the last Kiowa outbreak, 1874-1875. The bone pendant represents the eagle bone whistle of the Sun Dance. (C). Associated names: Akopti; Paitalyi; Koniatain. (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: 4 Mar 2021
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: E229835-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model